Not all that long ago, in decades not very far away…
People stood together because of common goals, even if they disagreed on how to achieve them.
It was so weird.
Today’s way is much more exciting. We don’t really get anything done because we have two Drunken-Uncle Parties taking turns steering the wheel as hard as they can in one direction, then the other, arguing the whole time about which one of them is the bigger asshole.
But it gives 24-hour news agencies something to do. Otherwise, we’d be stuck back in the reality that a half an hour here and there of half-listening to actual nightly news coverage was often more than enough.
It’s interactive, too, thanks to social media comments.
For a brief time, when the internet was born, we passed through an actual Information Age. It didn’t last. Point-and-click is an instant-gratification interface method.
And now we play life like a video game. Constant input, constant output.
So people don’t stand together because of common goals anymore if they disagree on how to achieve them.
Everyone’s too busy trying to beat the high score.
But like ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway”, everything in the digital world is made-up and points don’t matter, and all we’re really doing anymore, the more we point-and-click, is giving the political bookies better data so they can create more accurate spreads.
And the house always wins.
So, basically, we really suck at this video game and just *have* to learn to stop falling for it every time one of those Drunken-Uncle Parties tells us to pull their finger.
Firefly Uprising 