This is not really the Age of Information, like they say it is. This is the Age of Too Much Information. The problem is that 99% of it is self-generated, recycling the same spin in endless combinations of interchangeable data. I think it's an evolutionary product of the ability to Cut and Paste. All this information obviously hasn't made us smarter, and it sure as hell hasn't made us healthier or happier. This is a giant Glass Bead Game, a giant Gameboy, an immense Barnum & Bailey smoke and mirrors production designed to steal our money, steal our time, burn away our precious life, and give us unnatural values.

Our only hope for escape is independent study, boring as that may sound. We are losing the ability to formulate ideas - 5 minutes of listening to any radio station pretty much clinches that idea. That's just it - we have to tune out - we have to stop listening to the Matrix. It's all the same and it's everywhere - you know what I'm talking about. We have to find ways to tune back into the universal, and steal our time back for ourselves; to have a life. Time is our total capital; why waste it being told what to think or how to act by some mass panderers?