Junkhead
An interesting article in Wired with Susan Blackmore who claims we’re being overrun by memes that want to use us for their own advancement.
She lost me at the end of the interview, however, with this WTF nugget (italics mine):
The world is being taken over by the technological memes, and if we don’t understand what’s happening we are not going to be able to cope with it. The stress on a human brain, the way our kids’ brains are torn in 10 bits at once doing multitasking, the pressures to take drugs to stay awake so you can process more memes all day . . .
Um, no. I’m pretty sure I don’t know anyone who’s that unbalanced. If I did, my recommendation would be to turn it off. Turn it all off.
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t (know them, that is). There are all kinds of drugs, my friend. Caffeine is one. How many Microsoft coders mainline lattes all day to keep going? And then there’s the harder stuff. How many young attorneys pop Adderall so they can work 18 hour days? Susan might be onto more than you realize.
Taking drugs to keep going at work is one thing; but taking drugs to stay awake so you can process more memes . . . that’s taking stupidity to a new level.