Spending 2023 “Learning to code” was like intensive training in how to become a mindless automaton. A technozombie. I sentenced myself to a years hard grind of Coding, reading manuals and staring into a screen at lines of green code. Then gradually my life was reduced to a tiny little prison formed between me and the computer screen. Completely disconnected from the world and reality, endlessly taking apart little puzzles to solve bigger puzzles that were contained within even bigger puzzles. All day,every day, month after month. Like the ancient myth of Sisyphus who was condemned to push a giant rock up a hill for the rest of eternity for no reason. Or maybe It was more like the guy in Kafkas story who woke up and found he had turned into a Giant Vermin. I woke up and found I was a mindless automaton writing code forever.
I’ll be honest, I’m not suited to it, it’s not my nature and what good is it, if it turns you and your life into an empty souless husk? I spose I’m dumb, my nature is comics and books and art and strangling guitars. you know what I mean? I’m curios about the world and the devils pulling the levers behind the curtain. Finally, in life you have to go with the cards you’ve been dealt even if its a bad hand and the games rigged. You know? You cant allow them to club you into dank submission Buk.
Project ‘Learn-to-code’ made me understand one thing though. I can now see why there is so much mental illness, wokery and worse among people who work in tech. I think its an unnatural activity. It is for me anyway, of that Ive no doubt. Nature made men to get up and go catch some fish or an kill an antelope and work outside under the sky. Then when your done, head back to your tribe so that the women can prepare the evening meal. Maybe do a bit of cave painting and spend the evening sitting around a fire chilling out, laughing, telling stories of the hunt and watching the stars. That’s what Humans evolved to do. Should it really surpise anyone that people who spend all day in their tiny box prison, coaching their brain into madness, eventually lose their mind and their soul along with it? What goes first, the mind or the soul?
So Anyway, normal service will now resume and I’ve got some new stuff that will be coming soon. Just in time for the Collective West to start World War III and blow us all to Hell. Hurrah!
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