April 2nd
And all I can think is, “Thank god April Fool’s Day online is over.”
Seriously, Internet, you all fucking did it horrifically wrong.
That Google autopilot thing? Made me want to kill my Gmail and go back to Microsoft Outlook. Yes, I’d have to deal with terrible search functionality, but the downside of living in the cloud is that you have to be ready for the rain of crappy whenever Google decides to drop it on you.
Sarah and I listened to a Radio Lab episode this weekend that convinced me that Darwinism is over, due to the fact that we can now control biological engineering (to a point) and so competition as it had existed for a few billion years is no longer necessary. I would like to add to that argument that April Fool’s Day is no longer necessary, because the Internet has completely murdered the entire idea of being clever.
From here on out, the greatest prank I’ll ever see are people pulling the wool over the April Fool’s True Believers’ eyes and making them all realize that pulling an AF joke is the same as being the hugest band/theater/whatever-lame-thing-you-were-into-back-then geek in high school ever.
At any rate, new rule – if you’re thinking about pulling an April Fool’s joke next year, think back and take a second to ask yourself, “Does this make me look like Edward Norton in the beginning of Fight Club?”
If it takes you more than two seconds to answer, “No! I figured out the one new original thing!” kill yourself and put it in your will to have your head delivered to me. I’m starting a collection of deterrence on my balcony.
April 2, 2009 at 1:30 pm
i completely forgot about that april fool’s day movie, but after seeing the picture in that entry, my mind sped back to my days of browsing the horror movies at our little video store in lafayette. i was too terrified to actually *watch* any of the films (plus my mom would NEVER let me rent one), but i was drawn to the covers… sort of like video rubbernecking.
anyway, tangent!
April 4, 2009 at 10:49 pm
How is us controlling biological engineering not part of Darwinism? We are animals, and having a mind capable of understanding and figuring out biological engineering is one of the latest things that evolution has given us in order to make us more fit. Tell me what will happen to the genetic traits of societies that don’t have access to this type of technology? Could they begin to fade away? If so, isn’t that still just survival of the fittest?
To think that human invention and technology some how pulls us out of Darwinism is to separate man from animal, which negates the very concept of evolution to begin with.