Fireworks
The fireworks are going off outside more this evening than the past two nights put together. More than the Fourth, actually.
Also, too, by the way; it has been 24 hours since I downloaded all my Twitter data and deleted my account. It is calming, for sure. I went to Google News earlier on the Google app and saw all this awful, bad, Bad, BAD news and just closed the app. This is all the media has focused on my entire adult life. Bad fucking news because it causes a reaction because the audience is fucking numb otherwise and would flip the channel, or better yet, turn off the TV entirely and go do something more creatively stimulating. A lot of people don't even have TV's anymore, but the same rule applies to social media outrage. People get triggered and then have to talk about it, wait for Likes or shares or whateverthefuck, and ten go and get re-triggered over some other arbitrary topic.
People (most of them) are dumb.
I am getting wired off coffee and enjoying the crickets (and fireworks) and thinking of different, semi-meaningful things to write about. I was also listening to “The Ground Up Show” podcast earlier and it is pretty good, though, it is only as good as a podcast is concerned. There are so many of them (and who nows if any of them have any actual listeners) and there is not any genuine substance behind most of them. Just regurgitating the same internet-culture-y bullshit that everyone else with a laptop says.
Which takes me to my next point which is, going off of media. It would be a tremendously hard thing to do, I think. As in nothing but music and books. Music and books are two of the best things on this Earth and to go without them would be just plain suffering in my opinion. I mean going off newspapers, the Internet, social media, television, radio, all of it. I would like to get to thhis point, living without media sources and simply living “in the moment” (even though the latter is part of my life right now). I would definitely be happier.
Anyway, for my next trick (lol): Iam going to get a feature phone with 3G capabilities, i think. 4G LTE is really good (and the cost of unlim 4G is not an issue at all), but, I would be served better with a “feature-phone” (like the Nokia 3310) because I could A) keep my phone number B) have 3G connectivity for tethering to the Tab A and C) not have to worry about any type of “smartphone addiction” because I wouldn't be in possession of a smartphone. This tablet does everything and I never use the Internet when I am not in my apartment. Nothing online interests me at all when I am in the real world. I think this is partially the reason Graham Hill (the founder of Life edited) has had so much success not using the Internet v much; he simmply has a fun, active lifestyle IRL. So, anyway, I think I would be served well to just ditch the (untouched/unnecessary) Kyocera phone. This tablet does the basics that I need it to do (and a little more that the Raspberry Pi could never do).