Where are we Going? + Year 2000 Photos

 March 25th, 2022... 12:58 a.m....  Writing.  What to say?  It's one of those things - when you think "I want to write something, anything..." is exactly the time when the words don't come, or if they do, they don't have any real meaning, since the motivation is wrong.

That said, why am I now writing this?  I had a sudden urge to say something about how it seems to be getting harder and harder to write things for the Internet.  It's actually similar to taking videos in that the easier it becomes (technically) to publish text or images, the harder it becomes socially.

So - what to write about?  I suppose this is where poetry and science fiction comes in?  Things that are difficult for social reasons to say can be hinted at in a way that only perceptive people can decipher and even then, it's abstract enough that there's a kind of firewall between underlying themes and a world where you can't say much directly?

The danger with that though, is those in charge of censorship can sometimes figure out that there's something - in the background as it may be - that they don't want people knowing or thinking about and in the attempt to shut down all expressions of anything other then the myopic current theme being pushed into the wires end up attacking a whole range of things, mostly entirely innocent of what they imagine.

Another issue now is how most people have not been using dictionaries since the advent of the Internet and the result is the majority of people younger than about 36 (figure popular Internet usage from about 1996, which would be 26, add 10 if you imagine pre-Internet people using dictionaries from about age ten), and the 36 and younger crowd tend not to really understand the meaning of much of the vocabulary they use.  This is a tremendously important issue and vastly more dangerous than just about anyone seems to realize.  When there's no proper consensus on what words mean then we are degenerating into pre-language primitive humanoids who might as well be grunting at each other rather than mindlessly using vocabulary without knowing what it means.

Huh... that's it.  Sometimes what I think will be a simple thing turns out to be really long, and what I think will be long turns out to be rather compact when I get it up on the screen.

Photos - I'm going to put photos from the year 2000 between the paragraphs.  I'm using ones I've previously posted to Twitter, so they're already floating around in the wires, but I don't think I've used them in a blog post before... so I'm putting some in here.

Lyle Hiroshi Saxon

21st Century Tokyo