cntrl+alt+del (version 2.0)

re-hash of an older text and a new article in a kind of 0-attention span mashup...

Control. Alter. Delete. in the egalitarianism of the blogroll, in the twinkling night of flashy appin' pappin' camera phones and post-hangover photoshop face-lifts, we try our hands at things we’re not very good at. contrast. the greatest resource humanity has ever know. backspace. a network of interconnection, drowning in debates of sticky flummery spewed back and forth between ignoramus and obnox with the intellectualism of a food-fight. hillbillies with computers! hillbillies with computers! that's what we’re up against! unending pages of vacuous comments, talentless pixels and the unedited duplicates of selectiveless snap-happy shoot-me-in-the-facebook profiles; worse than gran’s slideshows. a result of the undiscerning abundance of megabits. whatever happened to Bill Gates’ prediction of an efficient and economical 640kb one-size-fits-all allowance? shift. stuttering vitriol. can't hack it. capitalised sentences. google whack. the spaces in the clouds get exponentially bigger. more and Moore. tubes, tunnels, pipes and wires. cathode rays. electron guns - it all seems so retro sci-fi. internet cafe time-out. circumventing illicit words in emails the same way i look over my shoulder to see who might be listening. the walls have ears, and your screen has eyes because “don’t be evil”-sloganned google is shifty. do you remember when CCTV cameras started to appear on every street in the country? no, neither do i. our keyboards bear the symbols of a paradigm (shift) in semantics and sneaky syntax. worlds of new alpha-beta-gamma-deltas babbling codes and subliminal secret languages that i don’t understand (f#@k it). trapped in the web. try to escape, space. or maybe, enter, home. hyper text mark-up tangents. shift. 10,000 years of warfare on land, 1,000 at sea, 100 in the air and 50 in space have led us to cyberspace. "the fifth domain of military operations", that's what the US defence secretary called it. anonymous wars in a terrain that defies topography. the aethernet. i’m scared. omgwtfbbq. post-modern goldfish attention-span globalisation cults for cut and paste generation-X-Y-Z. De1337 yourself. internet protocols like impossible etiquette. shaking hands. makes me nervous. slash. back(s)lash. drowning in i-scream. promises of the lowest possible mortgage and the most enlarged penis possible. adverts all over my user inter-face. web 2.0 is a skynet of interactive coercive logic gates. we live in boxes. Josh Harris was right. Warhol was right. everyone can have their 15 minutes of fame and anonymity will become a commodity that only the rich can afford. fakebook, me-me-mespace, googly all-seeing eyes. they all go to Bilderberg meetings and sit next to the the chairman of the federal reserve. David Rockefeller. Henry Kissinger. ACTA, SOPA, PIPA. shift. 1,000 friends makes you a loser. so well connected. extended, nuclear and now cellular families. there's no place like home, insert, end. Control. Alter. Delete. the war is on (line).