I don't watch a lot of television. You probably hear that a lot from folks that seem altogether too well informed about stuff that's on television. Except, what the fuck is even on television anymore? I'm typing this right now on a television so maybe I do watch a lot. There's computers on televisions and television shows on computers, or in my case, on a computer on a television. Sometimes there's a stream, other times a torrent. At least for me, when it comes to what I consider "television", I mean any video media that's not music.
Hey wait, what about the youtubes anyways? I included one here with almost every post this past month, so I obviously watch them and they're kinda like television. Mostly though, I just look up the song I want to include and watch it when I include it. They used to be on MTV, VH1, BET, CMT, etc, which would definitely be something I'd avoid, but mostly due to the commercials. However, in the modern era, all you have to worry about is ads on youtube but I use AdNauseum and I haven't seen an unwanted commercial in ages. I also remember random streaming services pulling bullshit where they'd make you watch commercials before you could continue viewing the show.
Now that I've established I'm a bit too well informed about this stuff to not watch it, I'll admit that I actually quit... for the most part. I still torrent and download stuff. It's old fashioned these days but I also have some private streams (not an onlyfans, you degenerate) to watch for when company comes over or if there's a pay per view that needs viewed without paying, and those are kind of modern. It's always fascinating to me to see how people set up their "home theaters" because of all the choices available now. Do they have a simple wireless "dongle" like Roku or Amazon's fire stick thing? Or do they make things overly complicated and try and run a media server on Frankenstein's monster's local network with regular cable intermingled?
Dropping the television, or watching far less, came along with my excess exercise and personal paradigm shift. If you have less time to watch something, you will generally watch less of that something. You can't make more time in the day but you can cut out other stuff. I did not choose to save watching television, so it died a bit for me. I was one of those people that would put something on to have in the background while I did whatever it is that I did around my old apartment. Mostly drink, smoke, and play. I guess, but I still do two of those three things with a lot of regularity now, I just don't keep something on the television just because anymore. It always seemed like I was accomplishing more with my time because I was also "catching up on the latest shows" but in reality, I was just fucking around and not doing anything worthwhile. It was a distraction and I'm glad I cut back so much I guess is what I was trying to say. However, I gotta talk about Loki.
I have no idea where to find this show legally. It's a Marvel property so Disney's streaming service should have it, but who the fuck knows what contract this one might have. There are often grumbles about this show or that show being on this service or that service. Just steal your stuff, it's easier and cheaper. Or borrow, I don't know the nomenclature. I recommend Loki, wherever you can find it. Out of curiosity, I tried an episode of Wandavision when it was finished so I could watch it all if I desired. I did not, and decided I was finished but Loki is different so far.
I'm a bit of a nerd, not sure if you could tell from the stuff that I've written here but I am and it doesn't bother me. These two shows interested me because of that and the first one was weird and boring and this one is awesome and exciting. It's mysterious and it's about time travel. I don't want to get too into it here for two reasons. The season is only at about the midway point so it could still turn out to be awful. Also, it's good so far and you should watch it without spoilers. If I come back to it, I'll spoil the shit out of it, but not right now.
Right now I want to talk about time travel. It's a literary device and a plot and a way out and a premise and anything you want it to be in a story or a movie. I'll pretty much give anything a chance if it's about time travel. The concept is and has been tantalizing since The Time Machine by H.G. Wells probably first introduced it to stories or even the human mind. Now, it seems impossible, but maybe eventually it'll be possible. Then, it would have just seemed absurd.
It still is a little absurd, if you think about it. How would anything ever be capable of transferring all of your atoms from one time to another intact? Maybe there could be some type of quantum entanglement time travel deal where the body you have here and now will cease to exist but you will begin to exist somewhere else and at a different time simultaneously. Make a duplicate of yourself in another time and the current one will disappear like beaming up in Star Trek. Perhaps a vessel could be used to keep you intact but would the entire vessel then be in the same scenario described above or could it somehow continue existing?
After all, time isn't a universal constant. Everyone knows some stuff just takes longer than other stuff, when you're having fun or when you're bored, for example. We all experience time travel forward, why not backward? If you can go up and down and side to side in space, why can't you go backwards and forwards in time? The way I see it, the biggest problem is the moment in time when it's first discovered how to travel through time. Can you go back before then? If you go back in time and change something, you will no longer need to create the time machine. If you go back and fuck something up, the machine may no longer be created due to ... who knows? The butterfly effect, or whatever. The only way traveling back before the creation of the time device makes sense is, oddly, tourism.
Time tourism, where you travel in a cloaked device to witness whatever you want in the past, would help pay for the whole endeavor. It would be a bit risky because of the dangers of messing with time before time travel, but not too risky. If it's future humans traveling back in time in cloaked "UFOs", and not aliens, that's a salvageable scenario should the vessel crash. Obviously, make it self destruct, but the time tourists would just be stranded here. Perhaps a memory drug administered automatically? They'd have to sign a waiver, but why not?
Travel in time after the initial vessel or device, could be nightmarish. In reality, of course, or rather in this more real fantasy scenario I'm discussing right now. It could be humans traveling through time and killing each other for the rest of time. In this more real fantasy scenario, it sounds like I think it's a terrible idea to mess with time. I do, and my concern is the cost. It would be prohibitively expensive and so I worry that some future corporation may fund it themselves and try and alter the past or future by winning big on gambling because they got a sports book with all the winners listed.
This was just some thoughts on time, which I think a lot about. I spend a lot of time on time, if you'd like. I think I do and I think I'm done with this for the evening. Probably more to come on this topic though I've no idea when. Time will tell, I suppose.
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