Microblogging

Spacehey is kinda like twitter honestly. At least for the heavy users.

For users like me, the pleasure in Spacehey is discovering cool profiles and customizing pages.

And I often go months without using it.
I would think: "Geez I have nothing to write about..."
And would sometimes force myself to post something that, in the end, I wouldn't be very happy about.

My initial statement came because I follow a few people that use Spacehey kind of like twitter. But now I'm thinking, that's not true. 
It's just their way of using it.
And I have mine.

I think that there is great value to be found in actually doing what I am doing now.
Just writing my ideas. And not in a shallow way. 
Like, actually a mental exercise on figuring something out. And because it's in the internet, someone might come one day and challenge the idea, enriching my perspective and theirs about the subject.

I was reading Snowden's book, Permanent Record, and I he talked about the way the internet used to be. And that really stuck to me. A place where the real value is in the content of the conversation and not in who is it coming from. After all, back then people used nicks that anonymized them.
A place where the judgement doesn't matter because the people they were directed to "didn't exist", and because no one really knows each other. No laws, no citizens, no crimes.

I might have romanticized the idea a bit...

However, with the current state of things, one would long for the Internet like he described it.


Longing for a different kind of reality is a very natural things for humans to do. We find ourselves in a world we sometimes aren't very happy with. And wish for things to be different.

A few days back I watched Future Boy Conan, and OH MAN did it stir some thoughts in me. 

It was a 5 star for me in letterboxd and the only review I ever made on letterboxd. I don't like doing reviews so much, I often find I don't have anything relevant to say, and even if I did I wouldn't think I have the authority to criticize anything anyone does, and even if I did, WHY would I have to put it on the internet? No one asked. I'd just share those ideas with friends.

But anyway, Future Boy Conan made me think a lot about war, humanity, work, children, healthy living and good values.
I honestly don't know if I can describe my thoughts, but the themes in it really really resonated with me. I suggest you watch it. It is fun, thought provoking, it has great animation, awesome action scenes. I would re-watch it a thousand times.

It made me think of the "wishing for things to be different"