The Internet is Awesome if you stop resisting.
Unfilted Human Thoughts #18
The Internet is Awesome if you stop resisting. And I mean the actual first definition of Awesome.
awesome /ô′səm/
adjective
Inspiring awe.
It’s a thunderstorm you lose electricity from.
Concerning the internet, a more accurate word would be creates Awe, that’s why the internet is full of Creators.
And creating Awe is a pretty complex thing.
Awe.
You know awe.
awe /ô/
noun
A feeling of respect or reverence mixed with dread and wonder, often inspired by something majestic or powerful.
That’s a complicated trove of emotions all in such a small word. It’s best indulged in when it’s simple.
Arriving at a beautiful waterfall after a difficult journey.
The internet gives you something more inline with:
Watching the POV of a cliff diver in Majorca on a 6 inch phone in the fist of your hand | while you stream the latest amazing series according to someone in your office who you don’t have much in common with but something about this series actually caught your attention because you do like submarines and other underwater things, hence why the cliff diving video may have caught your attention, because what are you really going to see down there, once you go underwater? After all, you always open your eyes underwater, that’s just what you do, you gotta see, there might be a shark down there when you go underwater and open your eyes goggles or not, probably why you chickened out of that snorkeling excursion on that cruise while you were little; phew, now you wish you had because your present self thinks snorkeling is pretty fun even if you are more scared of barracudas than sharks and you’d rather have some muscle memory about the cudas. The mind of a shark is respectful, they are a curious and inquisitive creature; you gotta be curious when your looking for food; while the barracuda just seems like a sadist with petty power | and so you swipe your finger up across that little screen in your hand and the next vertical portal, into somewhere else, is a guy catching a monster barracuda on a beautiful looking deep sea fishing trip is also awesome in a much different way.
In that way it’s closer to the second and third definition of awe.
awe /ô/
noun
A feeling of respect or reverence mixed with dread and wonder, often inspired by something majestic or powerful.
The power to inspire dread.
Dread.
You just scrolled for 45 minutes, time that you could have spent doing something you love | like painting or gardening | and instead you inspired awe in yourself with the help of self-learning algorithms which almost inspired you to purchase $250 dollars worth of cheap Japanese construction pants, and you’re probably going to have to rewatch the episode of Succession because you didn’t catch 90% of the dialogue and in that show the dialogue is important to the real plot between the lines.
To add to the guilt you were just scrolling on your phone/watching TV/having lunch because it’s work from home aka cleaning day and you are procrastinating both cleaning and the actual work you should be doing because it’s raining soon and you are excited for a rain walk.
But if your pesky superego didn’t always ruin your day, the internet really is quite cool to your id even if it sometimes embarrasses your ego.
Seeing things humans only 100 years ago could only see if they traveled an onerous distance or found some very expensive books in some expensive library is still awesome, but it’s usually only a second or third order of awesome because it misses the journey.
That’s why if you stop resisting, the internet is an amazing playground that makes you forget that you need money for a baby and the job market is difficult for those introverts without certifiable skills aka morons. It can take you into some dark places and it can lift your spirit for some savory moments. Owls and cats can be friends and and there’s horrific things going on you know where.
That and and is the resistance. I may have lost the thought there, but I’m trying to give y’all a better product.
Anyway, that’s pretty close to a first complete thought that I’ve wrote for this blog but you’ll have to extrapolate on what I mean by the “if” in the title. Anyway, let me know if you have any questions.
Write me back on X, @Lucianof_DC.
Notes:
Sometimes I make up new words, I will post the definitions for you here.
filt /ˈfɪlt/
verb
to separate certained parts from others.
