27 March 2007 - internet apocalypse

Ever since Kafka invented the internet, changing us all from bedbugs to software bugs, things have been going from strange to worse. Our time-tested institutions are being tested by running on internet time, and they are rapidly failing. Legislators propose last year’s solutions (“yes, you CAN SPAM”), and they’re in the forefront. YouTube, which used to be a misspelled item of hardware, has been sued because people are misspelling its name as an item of hardware. We can’t go back, and soon we will all be dragged by the feet, clicking and scheming, down the ultimate drain, as we slowly and finally realize that the gaudy internet is the one and true ankle-bangle of the apocalypse.