June 2012
i’ll be there in the morning
listen close and dont be stoned
my teen angst bullshit has a body count
Nathanial Moon, bulging with muscles, called it āthe ultimate revenge of the nerds, the greatest way of getting back at all the guys that stuffed people from Google into lockers from high school and stole all their prom dates. And you canāt fight against Google, because theyāve got billions of dollars.ā
āBut,ā he added, āI love their search engine.ā
” —i do not wish to live longer than my computer
i dont wanna feel that it wasnt real
about not wanting and wanting anyways
they deleted the post so i wonāt link to them & itās not an attack on their character or ideas, just a general trend analysis:
stages of a trend
-inception
-rising / gathering populaity
-peak (Very brief)
-decline / everyone remotely self aware realizes how lame it is
-some dumbass kid tries to continue it
iāve been thinking lately that the internet is a means of rapid cultural progression because of itās constant dismissal of trends. the time between peak and decline are the same because everyone whoās on āthe cutting edgeā of the trend (and probably denies that status, lest be a hipster (a quick definition: someone who is interested in anything, or a personās self doubt about their level of interest in something, or in other terms ācharacteristics of bourgeois society that i donāt likeā)) feels like they have to be so forward thinking for everyone else whoās an idiot (so ānot self-awareā) member (they donāt exist) of the subculture and announce the trendās waning moments. Needless to say, these enlightened individuals who herald a trendās demise are just ruining the peak for themselves to enjoy. A huge part of the particular trends they are involved with promotes the idea of being self aware, critical, and most importantly so over whatever other stupid trend that is happening now. But what the trends lack is a sense of context, when to call for a trendās end, what in society is the trend a manifestation of. I feel like great critical pieces of analysis can come out of mid-peak study on emerging trends. For example, instead of calling trap music over or trying to kill it, i feel like it should be taken apart in every way and examined.
I dunno, do I have the right idea? Should we stop and think critically about every emerging trend or just keep them coming en masse? Is it more ideal to have long arching periods of progression, or try to get near-instant trends happening? Is there value in trends produced by going viral online? has everyone else already finished their analysis on how they perceive trends for themselves during the trendās peak and I am just not seeing them? Has trap music (just an example) really peaked and everyone has exhausted all resources in analyzing it? I feel like I donāt really see many honest text posts about these trends, and everyone is kind of just āletting it happen to themā. discussion and feedback welcome
your phone your laptop your tablet, all access points to you and others
they are not computer, you are computer