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First off, if there is such a person who actually monitors the content on this site and reads my silly little thoughts, I apologize for going 3+ months between posts. There have only been one or two occasions in that span where I even thought about posting some thoughts or linking to content that I thought worthy of checking out, but my laziness got the best of me.
Second (but related to the first), don’t you find the Internet a complete waste of time? If you will allow me a brief moment of pessimism. How often do you spend more than 5-10 minutes on the Internet, where you do more than just check your email, and then when done think to yourself, “that was fun” or “that was time well spent”? If I am honest with myself, I would say about 90-95% of the time I spend on the Internet is frivolous and wasted, and I don’t even have a Facebook or Twitter account! I cycle through the same few links that I try and check in on regularly and find the Internet is often the “same old, same old.” I can think of only one or two sites I have stumbled upon in the last year that really spurred in me creativity or original thought and the rest just seems like empty filler.
I don’t know that this state of affairs surprises me much though. The Internet has gone the way of all other media, and has fallen prey to commercialization and homogenization. As soon as a site rises up and reaches critical mass, it is realized that there is money to be made, and then considerations of what is profitable and drives the most eyes to the site take over for whatever the original intent of the site was.
I have been meaning to write a post about the title of this blog “Creative Apathy” for quite some time. I think I will get around to that next, since those two words sum up a lot of how I experience the Internet generation.
