Re: RWC Humiliation Station 2011 (HERE COMES THE DEBT COLLEC
12-09-2011, 12:14 AM
Fuckin' finally
My lovely lamp-post
There are things in the world that spend their days undeservingly ignored, disrespected, and sometimes even outright hated. These are normally things that serve great purposes but whose abundance makes them seem trivial and unnecessary. It's one of those things I want to talk about here.
Lampposts.
At first glance it could seem that their mission is simple and unimportant. Even wasteful and uncomfortable to some. After all, all they do is stand there lighting the streets even when most of the time those streets are empty.
This is, from my experience, the general opinion on lampposts, and while it might seem reasonable, it is deeply and fundamentally wrong for one single reason. It fails to account the cumulative effect of lampposts.
Nowadays, every city in the world is full of lampposts readily available to whoever happens to walk their streets after dusk, and every road is perpetually illuminated. This worldwide grid of lampposts means one simple thing, that night doesn't matter anymore. It means that you can go for a walk and read a book in a park at 3 AM if you want to. Night is not anymore that huge chunk of time during which the whole humanity is rendered useless by a simple lack of light.
Lampposts are, without exaggeration, humanity's conquest over time itself. We may be very far from conquering any non-trivial amount of space, but there's not a single second that we don't have control over. That's all because lampposts are there for us but it seems to me that nobody realizes how incredibly important this is. It's like lampposts are so ingrained in today's world that it's neurologically impossible for people to imagine what living without them would be like.
Well I can tell you, and it's not pretty. Night would be once again surrounded by an aura of uncertainty, insecurity and plain old fear. We'd have to actually get ready for it. We'd have to plan for it, and worry about improper planning.
Each day of our lives we'd be submerged in a darkness bigger than all of us and which we can't control. We'd have to face our limits every day, and we'd be doomed to fail every time.
I don't know about you, but I could not live in a hopeless world like that.
In conclusion, lampposts are a basic pillar of our society
My lovely lamp-post
There are things in the world that spend their days undeservingly ignored, disrespected, and sometimes even outright hated. These are normally things that serve great purposes but whose abundance makes them seem trivial and unnecessary. It's one of those things I want to talk about here.
Lampposts.
At first glance it could seem that their mission is simple and unimportant. Even wasteful and uncomfortable to some. After all, all they do is stand there lighting the streets even when most of the time those streets are empty.
This is, from my experience, the general opinion on lampposts, and while it might seem reasonable, it is deeply and fundamentally wrong for one single reason. It fails to account the cumulative effect of lampposts.
Nowadays, every city in the world is full of lampposts readily available to whoever happens to walk their streets after dusk, and every road is perpetually illuminated. This worldwide grid of lampposts means one simple thing, that night doesn't matter anymore. It means that you can go for a walk and read a book in a park at 3 AM if you want to. Night is not anymore that huge chunk of time during which the whole humanity is rendered useless by a simple lack of light.
Lampposts are, without exaggeration, humanity's conquest over time itself. We may be very far from conquering any non-trivial amount of space, but there's not a single second that we don't have control over. That's all because lampposts are there for us but it seems to me that nobody realizes how incredibly important this is. It's like lampposts are so ingrained in today's world that it's neurologically impossible for people to imagine what living without them would be like.
Well I can tell you, and it's not pretty. Night would be once again surrounded by an aura of uncertainty, insecurity and plain old fear. We'd have to actually get ready for it. We'd have to plan for it, and worry about improper planning.
Each day of our lives we'd be submerged in a darkness bigger than all of us and which we can't control. We'd have to face our limits every day, and we'd be doomed to fail every time.
I don't know about you, but I could not live in a hopeless world like that.
In conclusion, lampposts are a basic pillar of our society