Today there are millions of TV shows, movies, things to see, try and do on the internet.
Too many social networks, digg filled with pure shit, and hours and hours and hours of “must watch” and “must do” things which can be extremely understimulating.
This seems to be leading to a new kind of restlessness, where there is so many things to be done, and you are so stimulated that you are looking for new things to stimulate you. Thus you try to find the latest and best, be it flipping channels or trying to get hold of the latest software or trying to watch a video that actually catches your fancy.
For example, in movies, people 10 years ago used to cling on with excitement with cheap lame(note my choice of words) action involving blue screens and miniatures, but today, real tanks blowing up and exploding in Transformers manage to bore the hell out of us.
Even mom told me about some new Kannada TV show/serial that’s coming, and a new one seems to be popping up every week. Nowadays everyone wants to make movies, indipop albums, TV shows, and everyone wants to do the same thing that’s been done, only bigger.
There are two points I wish to draw, without boring you on forever:
There’s so much of the same stuff, that nothing excites people anymore. Thus they keep trying to find the same kind of excitement and stimulation but they fail to find it.
This is mainly because of a society that fails to innovate. Everything is like the first, only slightly more polished. Every social network, every blog, every movie, every TV show, every Video sharing site, all just try to redo something that was proven to be profitable rather than try something new.
I think I’ve found a solution for this problem, which works for me.
I know I’m pissing a lot of people off with this article.
Shoot.
my head is spinning and am feeling sick to the core. no not because of the post, just my throat hurts;/ uh anyway. .
so by writing this entire post you are telling us you are fucking bored having done it all and cant stand being talked about it by people who are on their way to seeing /experiencing things that you already have?
andy you cannot expect everybody to come up with NEW stuff all the time? what exactly is your problem with polished and better things? do you not want to have options? so much info freaks you out?
try telling a baby learning to walk,”STOP KID your doing it just the way everyone else did, same old thing, innovate!” …
oh as for me, i tried those distros because i was not satisfied with the desktop experience from ubuntu. and i will keep looking until i am satisfied. whats the harm in that?
options are to choose. so i choose what i want to install and you choose what you want to take in your system and leave the polished better things out.
geez you are starting to sound like microsoft, andy.
and i never said gnome 2.18 was not cool enough… i said “juz” and that means because it appealed to me.
I said people tend to be bored. When was the last time you were truly satisfied with what you found or did. I’m saying that there is no digital salvation.
Seriously, gnome caught your eye, but was it worth the 700 mb download and the hours that it took to set up?
face it, people are bored. digg’s now full of vomit, so is everything else.
Name one thing that you’ve seen interesting over the past one week. Go ahead and link me.
And plus, I’m all for polished interfaces. What I don’t like is when every tom dick and harry tries to make a youtube clone thinking that they can make money out of it.
Think about it.