It's been about a year since I first suspected I might be hooked. It started with a few flirtations, a search here, a link there. I was monitoring the Elvis Costello site, due to the release of When I Was Cruel, and an approaching concert I was destined to attend. My addiction became more intense when I started up with the Elvis message board, and went totally out of control when I eventually got in with the high-speed crowd.
Now, I'm totally addicted to the web, and I waste hundreds of hours link-hopping around the known cyberverse. In a way, the worldwide web is a major eye-opener. There are billions of humans, and appartently, an equal number of human points-of-view. If you don't have any friends, all you have to do is type in a few interests, and you'll find that you're not alone.
I find it typically ironic that my addiction to the web has come at a time when our country is in great danger.
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I feel an almost instictive desire to protect my country from it's government.
My many hours of floating on the web have made me quite paranoid.
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http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html
In fact, I've come to believe that true freedom and actual truth are not obtainable by ordinary humans. I've come to understand that the corporate interests are entirely to large to influence with reason or morality, and that trying to strike at them violently (terrorism) is also an exercise in futility. Like so many aspects of so-called "human nature", it all boils down to the barest of natural laws, in this case the law of "survival of the fittiest".
If "the fittest" want a war, they get one.
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Slobman of North America
You will survive...
But it isn't just the war that disturbs me about the times we live in. It's the major power-grab executed by the executive branch right after 911, and the subsequent move to a pre-emptive (or imperialist, whatever) military strategy.
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People, we are going to be at war for a very long time. I can't find a speck of solace in that.
Of course, I guess we could blame my web addiction for my dismal outlook and paranoid demeanor.
http://www.bigeye.com/phoenix.htm
In fact, I think I will.
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I've got to give it up. It's taking up too much time, and too much brain.
I love the Elvis message board. It's helped me many times, and I've stung it, slapped it, sticked it, kicked it, and you name it. It's like a big ol' Labrador Retriever. It just keeps loving back.
I was very touched by the sympathies I recieved over my brother's passing. This really is a good gang.
But, I know I abuse it, and it only seems appropriate to me. As Noise has so frequently pointed out, a rock star's fan site is really not the place for political arguements, philisophical rants, or religious diatribes.
Besides that, coming up with something to shock or offend this crowd is getting harder and harder.
http://www.nationallampoon.com/MoDstyle ... _jesus.asp
I think I ran off many of the posters who just couldn't handle the Doubter Of God (DOG, thanks Taz). Maybe that's not true, but we could ask cbart, Mr.Average, and Sweet Pear where they been and why.
It's an emotional thing, a message board. Folks don't like having their paradigms challenged, but I seem to take a sick joy in doing just that. It just isn't right. So, I'm giving it up, along with booze, weed, Diet Coke, and masturbation.
That's right, I'm having my hands amputated.
I plan to dwindle off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts, and dream of guitar notes to go with the loading-zone announcements.
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Adieu, ya'll!
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...and long live the king!