Bears mothafucka. Bears.

So, I'm updating just to update. I feel that it's been a while since I did so, and I don't want you all to think that I'm a bad and lazy person. Don't get me wrong; I am a bad and lazy person, I just don't want you to think it.

"But Marcus," I hear you cry out, "Now that you've said that you're a bad and lazy person of course we're going to think it!"

Probably not. More likely your instinct was "No Marcus, you're not bad and lazy!"

And so I win. I am bad and lazy (doubly bad for manipulating you into thinking I'm a good and not-lazy person).

I wonder what our ancestors would think of the internet. Here we have an incredibly powerful tool* and we use it as a toy, posting lolcats and videos of guys getting hit in the nuts. Let's be honest, we all love a good nut-smash video. Instead of breaking down cultural barriers, learning about our cousins in Africa or Asia while teaching them about us...we look at naked boobies or virtually teabag 11 year olds in Halo. But then again that little punk had it coming...spawn camping whore.

I'm sure we could move them past thinking it was a devil box, witchcraft, magic machine** and at least explain what it does...if not how. What would they use it for? (I mean after exploring the depths of pornography) I'd love to watch Plato, Chaucer and Disraeli making and laughing at the latest lolcats. What historical figure's lolcat would you want to see?

*arguably the most powerful tool in the history of mankind. Why more powerful than say the atom bomb, or the internal combustion engine? Well this is a tool for communication. Total, unbridled free communication. I think it has been demonstrated fairly well that among the things that make us "human" and not just another animal is our ability to communicate. To convey abstract thoughts and ideas. To teach and learn using this amazing technique. That is what makes us human...we don't have to discover levers, the wheel, or the internal combustion engine on our own. We can take what others have learned, utilize and expand it...always progressing (so long as the communication with the past is upheld. When you lose that communication, like when literacy rates fall, you get the Dark Ages...only in the last couple centuries have we matched and surpassed the knowledge and technology of the Hellenized world).

**Okay maybe not that one...I'm sometimes pretty convinced that my computer is magical. I can't wrap my head around how it, or the internet, actually work. How did that happen? Magic.