Dateline 9-24-2016

I know that time is a construct of man to begin so it is possible for our way of interpreting it can and does evolve as we grow. When you're a year old six months is half your life where a hundred-year-old could see the same six as a blink of an eye. Lately, I've been noticing more of a blurring of time where I feel that technology is allowing the past and present to coexist in a way that's getting more and more confusing as it grows.

Last night I stumbled on an old episode of Fear Factor while flipping through the channels. I stopped to watch it because I hadn't seen the show in years so I decided to give it. It was weird to me how old the show looked so I decided to look it up. First off, I was blown away by the fact that it was four years ago that Fear Factor returned to the air to then last only two seasons. It was harder to grasp that the original show is over fifteen years old.

Part of this is my denial that I'm as old as I actually am but I often that I'm over a decade off when guessing release dates of shows, movies and music. Another part of this time warp is from me currently listening to old episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience from 2013, months after the second run of Fear Factor was canceled

I'm a completest so when I find a podcast that I like I have to listen to the entire library. I discovered The Joe Rogan Experience way back when it first came out but I took a couple years off from listening to it when I left my office job that it's taking me a long time to get caught up. I've spent the two years trying which is why I started to think about time and technology to begin with. 

I was listening to shows from 2012 around the time this current election cycle started. This was before we settled on the worst two candidates in history so the show's griping about the 2012 election cycle mirrored the issues during the earlier stages of this current cycle. From time to time, I would forget that I was listening to shows from the past because it was the same narrative only different names. 

These technological time blends don't just affect Joe Rogan based programming. You can be looking through the news and find an interesting article with current ads only to find that it was written a decade ago and is still being circulated with a sense of now. You can find a video on YouTube with a posted date of Today then watch a video from the BBC recorded in 2008. Then there's Facebook where there is no longer any linear timeline to your feed.

Granted it doesn't take much effort to find the real time but it doesn't feel like there is a blurring effect taking place due to on-demand content. The storyteller in me likes to this that this is happening as the concept of a collective consciousness is becoming reality via technology and we have yet to evolve to grasp and sort the amount of data we receive at this point in humanity.

Oh well, this is what kept my mind busy last night as I was trying to sleep.

I finished my latest Android lesson last night so now my mind should be occupied with planning for the next assignment which I should be starting very soon. Of course I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Talk to you tomorrow,

- The Wicker Breaker