Kicking science in the mouth

Getting bored at a computer is a fascinating phenomena to me.

Don't get me wrong, I get bored sometimes on the computer. I check my facebook, devaintART, Etsy, and my webcomics. When I'm done, I browse around for a bit, and then I inevitably get bored.

Of course after the fact, I then realize how incredibly, ridiculously, LUDICROUS it is to be bored at a computer.

The computer is an amazing thing.

If you wanted to, you could find a song for every moment of your life. You could listen to something new every minute of your spare time.

There are THOUSANDS of books available online. You could read about anything. Fiction, non-fiction, classics, brand new authors, science. You could learn so much.

But if you didn't want to read a whole book, there are thousands more articles about anything and everything.

Don't want to read? TV shows, movies, and short films are all easily accessible thanks to youtube.

There are games, social media, "how-to" articles, photo editing, video creating, music writing, all kinds of media available at your fingertips.

And yet - you and I are bored.

Can you believe it? We are so INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID that we choose to sit there watching videos of cats jumping into boxes with our eyes glazed over and think: "By god! This is the best use of the internet I could possibly think of!"

REALLY?!

We essentially have a portal to all knowledge we could possibly want and all we do is look at pictures like this?

 

WHAT THE FUCK.

WE ARE  KICKING SCIENCE IN THE MOUTH.

Not so long ago, if you wanted to use a computer, you would have to leave your house, go to the nearest university, and access a computer THE SIZE OF A ROOM.

We now have PHONES with a higher processing capacity.

And yet, all anyone does with this phones is send pictures of "inspirational" cheesy quotes with blurred out backgrounds and sad looking dogs with signs tied around their necks!

I MEAN REALLY.

When was the last time you used the internet to actually LEARN SOMETHING?

Do yourself a favor. Look up a topic that you're genuinely interested in. FUCKING LEARN SOMETHING. Repeat this process every goddamn time you find yourself bored and staring at a computer screen.

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and afterwards you can go look at lolcats.