Where have our minds gone with this new information age of an overabundace of itself? Evereything from live Zeppelin bootleg videos to immediate directions to anywhere there's a road or a Chili's are now within seconds away, allowing our own intellect or want of actually learning something to dissipate into an acceptable ignorance that is warranted by the quick convinence of wi-fi accessibiltiy.

  Take for example learing the guitar. Classical musicians were trained by ear and musical theory, Kieth Richard's generation learned by spinning a record over and over again, and in the eighties it was all in cassettes and tablature books from the local library, but now one can download a song to learn, (several remakes of the piece), find thirteen different tablatures for it, and maybe even a lesson or two on you-tube.  Every possible shortcut is now ready, allowing skill in learning and practicing and digesting to be a moot point.  This idea of quickened stupidity is so widely accepted that people actually post videos of themselves, proudly playing GUITAR HERO, to a scrolling fretboard of four buttons, jamming to a muzak version of "aces high", and actually fealing ,like they're real musicians!  It's like turning the pages of "War and Peace" as fast as you can, claiming you read the book by saying "This is a book about Russia"; you may have read every word but you really didn't digest them.

  Another problem with this rapid fire age of global everythingism is the gross amount of information that was once tabboo but now ready for any seven year old to see.  Should children be able to click on a video to see an execution, or a robbery, or raw sex, or a poker table, or racist propoganda? I'm in my late thirties and I cringe at some of the shit I see out there.  Perhaps it is just better to think and imagine about some of these things until we gain a cognitive sense of what they really are before we are bombarded with their inevitable existance.

Maybe imagination isn't such a bad thing.