The Future

I'm terrified by the prospect of the future. Not so much in the personal sense, but in the global sense. Wherever I end up is where I'll end up. I'll deal with that shit when it happens to me. It's the rest of the world that scares me out of my wits. Think of how much everything has changed from when our parents were our age. Think of how much has even changed in our own life time. I'm not just talking about having a black president because I don't hold pointless reservations about things like that because they don't matter. I'm talking about the technology that is being created and how it is doing so exponentially. Cars start with the push of a button and can park themselves. The same cars will operate themselves if it thinks you're doing something wrong. I don't know a single person who doesn't have a computer or a cell phone. People don't read books anymore, they read lights on a thing. Essentially any piece of information you would ever want to know, is on the internet. Most sense of secrecy is completely gone because of websites like facebook and twitter (and this one, frankly). I've heard of more than one personal story from people who have called the police because they thought their friend had died after not responding to texts and phone calls in under a 24 hour period. There are cameras in front of most businesses, stores, some residences, etc. Children play less and less with toys and more and more with their parents' ipad because they're too lazy to actually raise them and put in effort (a different issue, granted, but my point still stands). We rely on technology to operate almost every aspect of our lives and most people have little to absolutely no idea how to fix it, how it operates, how to make it function properly, etc. I see commercials advertising a piece of whatever and it scares the shit out of me. I can't imagine a future with back to the future style hover boards, which probably already exist, and jet packs and teleportation because the future seems unmistakably dystopian and borderline Orwellian. I'm going to stop writing about my feelings and live my life, which in this case means getting stoned, because I don't know how to deal with my problems. That said, my fears about the future can't be repressed or dealt with by anything other than time so I suppose I shouldn't dwell on them. It's just very unnerving. If I can learn to be happy outside of what other's perceive as reality then I can be happy. I believe that is possible. The future may as well be what I make it. There you go, a little sip of optimism in my sea of doubt, cynicism, and pessimism. End.

edit. august 22 2012 9:46pm. When I said "I'm not just talking about having a black president because I don't hold pointless reservations about things like that because they don't matter," I don't mean that I'm upset that we have a black president, I'm saying that the idea that having a black president is so important that I have to put the word black in front of president is stupid because biologically, fundamentally, we're all the same. I understand its significance in a global and historical context and can certainly appreciate that, but my point is that we could have a homosexual, jewish, sort of mexican looking woman as our president and I wouldn't give a shit. We could have another string of old white men too. These things don't matter, they're just details.