Do The Hokey Pokey

“We surround ourselves with technology, we suckle at the constant pixel flux available to anyone reading this.”

That was a line I just wrote, in a diatribe which I deleted shortly thereafter. Do we, does society, really need yet another rant? Now that I think about it, I can answer that rhetorical question.

Of course we need a rant. We need to rant. We don’t need to kvetch, whine or bitch about a reality that is as immutable as it is fluid. What we need to do is articulate, take those pixilated images and factoids off the monitor and sculpt them into sentences with meaning and impact and throw them into the ether, to become images and factoids for other people to sculpt or ignore as they choose. We need to think, and we need to act. Me, I blog.

It’s all connected. A nod or a smile to someone you see regularly but don’t know reaches past the infinity that separates us all. Emails exist forever, just because you deleted yours doesn’t mean it isn’t stored—or forwarded—on the other end. The thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone. Look up from your screen right now, what are you connected to?

Zen teaches us that everything is meaningless. Turn that around, and everything is equally meaningful. So what if there’s a net value of zero, ideas matter. Actions matter. We matter, whether we want to or not. This blog doesn’t matter, but nothing is perfect.