Rational Insanity
'Save target as'
The wrath of the world wide web is upon us. Every time I open my email account, I am swamped with email from people I don't even know, advertising things from cheap Viagra to penile enlarging creams. These annoying things are called spam -- this is the prize we pay for cheap, fast, and multi-elemental communication. The internet is good for many things and it is also bad in some ways. The benefits that we get from the net depend on how we use it to our advantage and how good we are at exploring the myriad of possibilities that it can offer. For instance, I have a friend who owns an internet café and once I showed him the collection of graphics I downloaded from the net. He asked me where I got my image collection. When I said they were all from the internet, his eyes popped out in surprise. I was dumbfounded to know that someone who owns an internet café should be way behind his pleasures to be able to utilize the very easy search tools the internet offers! to their fullest. Not to brag, but I have almost two thousand song titles on my personal computer. All these I downloaded from the internet without any complicated program like 'lymewire'. The point I am driving out here is that just like life, the secret to fully enjoying the benefits of the net is simply by knowing where to look and what to look for.
The irony is that while the convenience of the internet is at our fingertips, the convenience of real life is not -- it depends on how we use our hands (not literally, of course). When downloading things, my best friend is the right click of the mouse and the 'save target as' command. If we could only get the things we want from life this easily, then perhaps there would be no worldwide hunger, senseless wars, pointless insurgency problems, and whatever else real life can deal us with.
The speed of acquisition of certain things from the internet depends on many things just as the speed of acquisition of certain things in life depends on the effort we put in to acquire these things. While some things between life and the internet are ironic, some are actually in contrast with each other. The amount of garbage you can find in the internet is almost directly proportional to the amount of garbage you come face to face with in life (literally). While in the internet, the garbage you find would be faceless and formless most of the time except for the nerdy concept of ones and zeroes floating in cyber space, in life, the garbage takes on a more concrete shape -- the face of a hypocrite (if they ever have one to show), a dirty politician, the lidless stare of a child abuser, and many other forms that we sometimes overlook but suffer the consequences of disregard later on.
Just like in cyber space it always pays to be conscious of the things that we want in life -- we have to always consider the accompanying risks of wanting and getting something. Downloading a file from the internet presents the risk of having our computers infected with nasty viruses. Seeking something from real life and getting it in the end could also open the risk of us being victim to countless evils and injustices floating around the very real space of existence.
The thing to do when we are download freaks (like I am) is to make sure that we have certain programs in our computers that would protect our systems from these viruses. In real life, this is called caution and a good sense of judgment. We don't want to bag down, hang, or get deleted, do we? So before we hit the internal 'save target as' button in ourselves, let's try and make sure we have our systems secure.
Be rational; be insane, every once in a while!TTFN!
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