Does blogging make you stupid, or rather, do blogs decrease productivity & creativity, or rather is the internet making my brain hurt? Most recently I lean towards “yes” if I were to answer myself truthfully. I am sure I follow a similar routine to a lot of you readers out there. After I wake up, take care of my morning meetings and have ample coffee and nicotine in my system to face the world I sit down at my desk and spend about an hour, looking through websites of interest. Granted, I am a bit of a news junkie and good half of that time is spent going through the various big newspapers online services to see if the world has finally blown, bush butt raped cheney ( one can only guess ), or if Russia is again invading Berlin, you just never know. The other half of the hour I spend looking and reading ( skimming to be honest as the majority of “scene relevant sites seem to employ writers without a high school diploma ) as I like to call them product related hype sites, without it being oh so typically negatively con-notated by yours truly. All these sites have their right to be there and as much as I bitch about it all I do read/skim them, so there you go, guilty as charged.

Lately though, I feel my like my brain is going to explode after this morning routine. Is it the sheer volume of, realistically, irrelevant information too  much to bear and furthermore, why is it, that after this morning routine of information pimping I have the urgent need to get away from my computer and either go for a bike ride or hit the gym, to unplug from the information whorehouse and reconnect with the analogue world? - On a side note, do all of us look through these sites because it is routine and humans crave routine because it gives us a false state of relevance or is it honestly interest? Do you actually care what and when brand a decides to engage in irrelevant online incest? I am not sure I do and again, right now I lean much more towards the routine part of the question than the actual interest. Granted, I am by writing this questioning my own site and my own continuous addition of online information spam but there you go. Is the internet making us prisoners of own disenfranchisement form the “real” world? To a certain degree I think so. For example, I didn’t have a computer let alone an internet connection at home until I was 24, yet I think I received the same information I do today, with the subtle difference that the volume of information was received at a slower pace, so maybe it is the instant information that is making my brain hurt in the morning? Possibly.

Back to the matter vacuum at hand, I thought it was great when Slam X Hype decided to scale down it’s posts to represent their staff’s interest, in comparison to High Snobiety and hypebeast I still find Slam easier to read because there is less to read in terms of posts per day, and what is up with hypebeast’s new layout? is it me and my shitty computer or have things now seriously hit the Bape/TK/I.T worshipping ceiling over hypebeast hq? And where are the blogs on hypebeast these days. Granted, it’s the only part of the site I look at, actually Fats’ & Benny’s blog to be honest, but now I can’t see them, have I gone completely insane or are they gone? Just a thought and not a condescending one at all, I am merely wondering. High Snobiety I read because it’s like AP these days, anything that’s out there is on that site, you got to hand it to David, I can’t even imagine having to deal with that much information on a daily basis, I think my head would well and truly explode. Again, I am not being a punk about these guys, it’s just that those three sites are so damn popular I thought them worth mentioning.

So what to do? Obviously, there is nothing more annoying than having to read a complaint, even though I am unsure if I am actually complaining here or just stating the obvious, and not getting a solution at the end of it. To be honest, I am not sure what the solution is, all i know is that the volume of information that this scene seems to be based on these days is killing my productivity and hampering my creativity. Seriously. Like I said, after my morning routine I need to get away from it all just to get my head cleared and regain focused. Also, being a ( apparently-and so I’ve been told even though I don’t quite believe it myself ) producing creative individual I am realizing that the influx of information is not helping me be creative. Ironically, I think I have my best ideas whilst being outside, either riding my bike, especially running even though I think that is a result of my endorphins kicking in after mile 5 so these ideas are mostly not to be trusted as these hormones have a similar effect to cocaine, skating or just cruising around the city. Again, maybe I am stating the obvious here but I thought it was worth mentioning. So what to do`? In our age of individuality over mass consent ( yep, democracy doesn’t work anymore in the 21st century ) it’s up to you. Especially if you read all this, I probably have caused you to stay online for an extra 20 minutes and thus created an even bigger matter vacuum than I would normally do, however, maybe this will cause you to go out and do some cool shit and breathe fresh air? I hope so. Happy April’s Fool Day. And remember, cool is only three letters away from fool.

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