On a particularly chilly Thursday morning, my train was cancelled. Consequently there were many glum faced people floating about asking themselves “WHYYYYY?”
There was a special old mate (let’s call him Crusty Carlisle for the purpose of this story) who caught my ear as he used the following statements to describe the situation…
“Is this what Australia has become?”
“Can’t get anything right in this bloody country”
“You’re the one who told me living here would be a good thing” (to his wife)
NOW HIS TRIP TO THE VIC MARKET WAS GOING TO BE DELAYED BY AN HOUR WTF? WTF? WTF? THIS CAN’T HAPPEN THIS MAN HAS IMPORTANT SHIT TO DO.
Let’s be real. There was no need for Crusty Carlisle to act out like this and he really needed to simmer down. Cool his jets some may say, untwist his knickers from their knot, take a chill pill. Just calm down is the essence of what he needed to do.
It got me thinking about unnecessary angst and how little has to go wrong to ruin in the world for it to completely ruin someones day and building upon this, just how self-absorbed persons have the capacity to be.
ANYWAY I SWEAR THIS RELATES TO COURSE CONTENT JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE ELLIOT PLEASE GIVE ME A CHANCE.
Relevance to course:
Xanadu-man (Thomas Holm Of Literary Machines 91.1), just like Crusty Carlisle, was freaking out to a level that was just not necessary.
Whilst there was a lot of other content within the piece which is probably more relevant to the course (and I will deconstruct later don’t you worry), it was the X-Man’s view of the internet and how it would mould society in a negative way in the 2000’s (“that is if the human race even makes it that far”- Xanadu man) that made me think the most about the human condition to worry where worry is not always necessary .
HE WAS FREAKING OUT GUYS.
JUST FREAKING OUT.
The impending doom of the net was a genuinely massive fear in Xanadu man’s eyes and to his credit, I think he was valid in his worry- the internet is a crazy place and bad things can happen if not used with care and it has considerably altered the state of the modern world (more to come on this in a following bloggy p).
Besicelly, fears can be valid, but in the end you’ve just got to cool your kit because ultimately whatever happens happens and you can’t really alter the course of your life and what happens to the world.*
So to Crusty Carlise and Xanadu-Man I say, chill men.
Does this count as a course related blog post?
Live, love & most importantly laugh,
G-Man
*Did talk just get real in here? I’m sorry. Philosophy is really impacting me.