Does anyone else feel like...something isn't right,

[Grizzly]

Has no-one referenced Hitchiker's Guide yet?


YEAH, no offense, but FUCK the platitudes and bromides. This isn't a feel good novel.

http://www.metafilter.com/155576/On-gri ... -it-brings

[Grizzly]

Has no-one referenced Hitchiker's Guide yet?


YEAH, no offense, but FUCK the platitudes and bromides. This isn't a feel good novel.

http://www.metafilter.com/155576/On-gri ... -it-brings

[Bryter]

There's something wrong in the heart of man..

[Grizzly]

Has no-one referenced Hitchiker's Guide yet?


YEAH, no offense, but FUCK the platitudes and bromides. This isn't a feel good novel.


"And then he utters the words. The words that are responsible for nothing less than emotional, spiritual and psychological violence: Everything happens for a reason. That this was something that had to happen in order for her to grow. That's the kind of bullshit that destroys lives. And it is categorically untrue. "



http://www.metafilter.com/155576/On-gri ... -it-brings

[Grizzly]

Sorry, it's nearly impossible to post from my fucking government tracker... i.e, Phone.

[jakell]

Does anyone else feel like... something isn't right?

Has no-one referenced Hitchiker's Guide yet?

Ah well, don't panic

YEAH, no offense, but FUCK the platitudes and bromides. This isn't a feel good novel.

In case you missed it, HHGTTG deals with some pretty dark subjects, and the use of humour to encompass them makes it heavier, not lightweight.

Any, now it has been referenced, I'm sure at least one member here knows the connection with the thread title.

[yathrib]

I tuned in on this very story in the middle, and never quite gathered all the context. I think it had to have been the weekend all things considered (the only show that airs on both your and my NPR affiliate on Sundays) but I can't find the story on their website. I called the local station, and they couldn't help... If you find out, let us know.

It was a touching story with an unintended cruelty. The simple, ordered world the rural Afghan existed in was just blown away and he ran from it, feeling to old to adapt to this new reality, while at the same time knew it would be beneficial for his younger siblings to gain an education so they could better cope in future with this new to him reality.

The fellow telling the story was well meaning. Sometimes some news is just too much to bear.

I suppose it's difficult in this day and age for us to imagine some on earth still exist as they have for thousands of years, by meeting their basic needs daily without knowledge of electricity or modern conveniences.

I spent time trying to locate which show it was I listened to this afternoon on WNNU 89.5 FM, an NEPR affiliate, to see if there was a synopsis offered with a podcast. My computer is far too slow to wade through their program schedule, but I did and could not locate it. Maybe I'll call the station tomorrow to see if anyone there could direct me. Hope that a bit more clear, but I'm not sue it is.

[82_28]

I think the Internet has changed everything immeasurably. Since I always have to be online I notice shit immediately that perhaps would have been "missed" in the earlier days. I think back to that post again of "socially observable time" having stopped and just now (as in this morning) I remembered that was the year I got high speed Internet. Before that it was all dial-up unless you wanted to pay for a T-1. I remember wowing everybody with my bragging of my download speeds when I got "AT&T @ Home". Nobody had that shit back then. This was before the now forgotten "RSS" feeds which were all the rage. People were making fun of the word "blog". You got all your video footage that would only play on RealPlayer. Music from Napster. And on and on. Our perceptions of events has quickened and perhaps the human psyche has an evolved dysfunction with what we have been able to create.

An analogy I was just thinking of while out for a smoke was that I read somewhere long ago that the reason squirrels inexplicably run under your car and get run over is because their vision and brains were not evolved to recognize a large object moving at high speeds. They simply cannot see a quickly moving vehicle. But I dunno.

[divideandconquer]

More than ever before, we live in a media entranced, politically manipulated world where everything they control is weaponized in one way or another. As long as we allow them to control our window to "reality" nothing will feel right because it isn't.

[lucky]

The internet changed everything - instant access to everything ever published (more or less) and then some. It's made everyone that very dangerous thing -people of little knowledge of many things. There is TOO much information now, so forming an erudite opinion is getting harder and harder on subjects where you begin from a position ignorance or near to it. What's true ? what's disinfo?, what are the lies..? who to believe? whats BS..etc etc

There are so many things that I would never have heard about if it weren't for the web: most of it finds it way here and the list is too long to put down but one thing has become clear things cant continue as they are. And those in a position to change things do nothing apart from feathering their own nests - which just leads me to believe that the 1% have a plan b already to go - weather that's going underground or blasting off I am now sure that's why they don't give a monkeys.

Time is certainly quickening for me , now I don't know if its just imagination or real, definitely feel real. And life has an inevitability about it in so far as feeling like a rat in a maze, no matter what decision you make or actions you take the ending is already decided - if you manage to hang on long enough.

[Luther Blissett]

One thing I will note: it's still damn near impossible to do real research solely on the internet. It still requires printed material, interviews with the right people, and observation.

[MacCruiskeen]

Anyone in or near Southern California can just drive right over to San Bernardino today or tomorrow and simply speak to any one of a hundred people or more -- neighbours, family members, people at the mosque, witnesses from the health center, etc., etc., etc., -- and thereby demolish* the entire "case" against Tashfeen Malik BY JUST ASKING WHAT HEIGHT SHE WAS.

It's not illegal yet, is it?

Is it?

*Or maybe even help to confirm it! Maybe she too was a strapping six-footer, just like her husband!

[Nordic]

Anyone in or near Southern California can just drive right over to San Bernardino today or tomorrow and simply speak to any one of a hundred people or more -- neighbours, family members, people at the mosque, witnesses from the health center, etc., etc., etc., -- and thereby demolish* the entire "case" against her BY JUST ASKING WHAT HEIGHT SHE WAS.

It's not illegal yet, is it?

Is it?

*Or maybe even help to confirm it! Maybe she too was a strapping six-footer, just like her husband!

High heels.

[Wombaticus Rex]

In what is surely the clearest indicator yet that something is really wrong, I'm doing pretty great.

[MacCruiskeen]

High heels.

Very.


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