Life Blood

Oh, I get it now.
10% nationwide unemployment.
Computer technology soaring.
They have BlogTV now. Ok.
YouTube. Facebook.
Etsy.
Sites to promote what you do.
The growing economy of the web.
Everyone trying to get a little bit more money on the side.
It's never enough for anyone now. Always something to be desired.
Keeping them hungry theory, ok, I get it.
Let's see what people will do.
All the tools are given.
People have to create their own worth.
They can study us.
We are monkeys.
In a way, we are in a zoo.
The smart people look at what we do on the computer, how we spend our time, what sites we look at. Helps them with research and marketing. Much more effective than Nielsen ratings. It's getting a lot more specific. They want to tap into what people want. They want to predict what people will want.
It's all business.
Well, if people don't have jobs, they can't buy stuff that companies make, so I don't know how they figured that one out.
People are their own best resource. You can't depend on anyone.
I am participating in this vast new experiment. Hey, they have all my test scores from school, along with every other person's scores in this country.
They've been monitoring us our whole lives, on kind of periphial level. We are always in the corner of their eyes.
It's not Big Brother. That is a little too obvious. Better to be subtle about it.
They've gotten good at this stuff. I'm impressed. The best minds have gotten together, and have created this. I see now that it is similar to an online game. People create the game, the characters, the levels, the progression system, and, most of the people are the players. This should be no surprise to anybody. It's been going on for a thousand years and more with people in power, creating systems for the little people. They have discussed methods of controlling the public for hundreds of years.
World's note to self: Don't tell them to eat cake if they have no bread.

Gaea, Mother Earth, she gets pissed sometimes.

I watched a lot of people get swept up in that 'change' thing. A very successful campaign. Most people in public office in the high levels, they are all part of the same club, that should be no surprise to anyone.

I'm listening to the band next door not play music. They aren't very good. They all have day jobs, and they should keep them.
I can imagine them saying, "Maybe if we practice enough, we can someday play The SuperBowl, just like 'The Who'.

South Park continues to nail every topic they address. I love Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They've done well.

Takes a while to learn how to think, I'm still working on it, takes time.

You grow up watching television, and getting bored in school, and then...not much happens.
I was making comic book pages in 4th grade, no one noticed. I kept doing them for my own enjoyment mostly, my siblings were my best audience.

I had no musical talent. I didn't like to practice when it came down to it. Didn't see the point. I wanted to go outside and play. I didn't know you could just take an instrument outside to a secret place and play. Didn't occur to me. Hard to concentrate in my house, didn't want to be there much. It wasn't very peaceful. I wouldn't exactly call it a sanctuary with all the kids crying.

I'm very happy about the Star Trek video phone webcam. It works good. I'm impressed.