For example, there are 200 billion galaxies out there. Mind blowing, when we get context, isn't it?
All I'm saying is there are still wonderful things happening in the world. And, probably, out of the world.
<insert minor rant>
I mean, obviously the internet is not a very happy place at the mo. Twitter is still full of whining, miserable folk seething and banging their righteous faces against the extremely broken world. Facebook is a desolate wasteland of privacy fiascos and paid-for political strongmanning. Google has sold literally everything about you they can get their hands on. Amazon runs off the backs of people who live in tents and is literally stockpiling all the words it can hear from its various cheap internet-connected devices. Instagram and Snapchat still peddle an extraordinarily misogynistic framework that draws young women into self-harm and young men into self-hatred...
</rant>
But still. That's just the internet.
The internet's still young, it's still learning why the words of the wise are what they are. Still lacking basic policies and wrecking its way through a destructive frontiers-themed barely-policed wild west culture.
But none of that internet stuff means the world is going to shit, it just means, as a species, we're learning how to connect in a new way. It happened with the printing press, it happened with the telephone, it needs to happen with the internet.
At the end of the day, we're still wonderful, amazing, brilliant humans, and the world is still the fantastic, ingenious, exciting planet its always been.
So here's to 2019; may we learn a new levels of patience and grace, and look inside ourselves for what we really stand for. And may 2019 be peppered with fun, booby, willy, bum comics now and then.
PB
