The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

The great joy of living in the Information Age — or the Information Glut, more accurately — is that every news flash, gossip tidbit, sports score, you-name-it, comes at you via everything from your cellphone, laptop, tablet, TV or microchip in your head. Whether it’s faux news or viral rumor, well, who knows? Or these days, who cares?? The real point is that your time is full up, boredom is a thing of the past, information is flying at you at the speed of light … or a Trump tweet.

If you feel overwhelmed, welcome to the future. If you no longer have time to cook dinner, plant a garden, learn to play an instrument or read a book, you’re in good company. After all, this isn’t rural Iowa circa 1850. It’s the New Age. 21st Century. Modernity run amok. Remember when we were all ga-ga about those ‘Time-Saving Devices’? Copiers, computers, answering machines, cellphones, electric knives — all to free you up for more important stuff. Like Facebook. Instagram. E-bay shopping.

I know … sure beats the horrors of self-improvement or learning new hobbies or searching for wisdom and enlightenment. How many LIKES on your post? Easier than meditating or studying or practicing. The virtual world is your oyster now. Maybe not heaven or paradise, but it sure takes your mind off those for awhile and comes a close 2nd. Or 3rd.

Who needs a guru when you got Google? God is just an algorithm now, Plato’s a poor boob looking at shadows in a cave. So roll over Socrates, let Wikipedia give you the news. The news is as phony as a 4 dollar bill, most of it, and the time we ‘saved’, worth about the same. Artificial intelligence is right around the corner and by then we’ll gladly take any intelligence that’s offered. Just so we won’t have to do the thinking….

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