I don’t like this daylight savings thing. When I was young we had to circle the Earth at super speeds to effect time or alter it an hour. Now these hooligans can just press a button. Sometimes they don’t have to do even that. Cable boxes and cell phones change by themselves. It’s not right I tell you and it’s creating a generation of good for nothings who won’t be able to go back in time if we should ever have to go off the electronic grid.

SPeaking of cell phones I still don’t know why any of us need these things except Doctors. It’s such a huge affectation. We keep accumulating these shiny new baubles as we hang on to the hedonistic treadmill and it’s not making too many of us happy. Sure you can say you want to keep in touch with work or family for emergencies. And they can come in handy. But a simpler phone or pager with no elaborate gadgets would do just as well. Society got on pretty well without any of this stuff until recently and science has yet to detect the survival  gene for instant communication.

WHich is not meant as an anti-technology rant. I love technology and usually am bothered by the countless American movies and literature that demonizes it. I think tech and science for the most part have only improved life and will continue to only improve it.

On that subject I saw The Watchmen and it too has some of that anti-tech point of view. Not going to get off on a long review as I’d like to because I don’t have the patience for that kind of thing anymore and the hubris and delusion that anyone cares about my analysis is no longer a symptom I am suffering from. But I liked the movie. Some of the speeches and romantic scenes bought it screeching to an uncomfortable stop at times and it was too long. But overrall a good job despite reinforcing that wary of science belief system through the auspices of Dr Manhattan and Ozymandias.

Science may well separate us a bit from our humanity as it does the big blue guy but considering much of what our humanity consists of I don’t think that’s a bad thing. And though Ozy’s kind of dispassionate analysis of our all too human issues can lead to some destructive decisions I tend to think those decisions come more from ideology than intelligence. His is not unlike the rationalizations of the Dick Cheney’s of our history but do we really believe those decisions were made out of too much thought? Or not enough?

I keep liking Green Day more and am so looking forward to the new concept album in May I want to freeze myself until then like Eric Cartman waiting for the Nintendo Wii.

There’s a point in life where you start losing more things than you gain. This is not a good place to get to especially if you have little to lose. Maybe that’s why all this stuff, these gadgets excite me less. Bread and circuses while the Kingdom of self crumbles.

Bye web slingers.