Web 11.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8

Now the whole of the Nation had one language of 0s and 1s and an interconnected Cloud. As the Women and the Men moved into the digital they found a platform on the web and settled there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s build Profiles and share them thoroughly.” Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves an Internet with robust Social Networks so as to build a Web that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be so alone over the face of the whole earth.”

But the Powers That Be (PTB) came to see the Web that the men and women were building. The PTB said “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they play will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Powers That Be scattered all new Fake Newspeak all over their Web and they stopped building it further.

About the Kidz these Days

I have gotten into a bit of a bad habit lately. 

Like all old people that have come before me I’ve been finding myself carping about today’s youth when in a social setting. Typically, all the adults about me will agree when I point out how lazy they’ve gotten. 
How they don’t have the same work ethic we had. How entitled they are or how disconnected they can be with one another because they stare at phones all day. I judge them on their trends. The music they listen that doesn’t resemble the good stuff I used be into. Their shorthand is difficult for me to grasp and I’ve given conspiratorial sermons on how Emojis are the Newspeak that Orwell warned us about. From that stand point of having something easy to complain about this young group is an easy mark. 
The reality is that these kids aren’t really any different than the troubled and worried young man I used to be. The society they are inheriting is complex and difficult and many will achieve great things in spite of it. Many of them will bring much joy to the world and perhaps fix the messes my generation created. 
They’ll work hard because they’ll have to. 
They’ll figure out connections with one another because they’ll have to. 
They’ll earn their keep because they’ll have to. 
So…I’m going to start giving these guys a break and try to keep up with what’s hip-happening now…feel free to join me.

When We Young