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is there an app for that?

By Rachel Haywire | Published: August 15, 2011
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a million ideas but complete lack of function
how many times have i been at this junction?
inventing creating without any parts
memetics divided in spreadsheets and charts
left brain where are you i know you exist
will you help me i need you i must make a list
my ideas have been pillaged by pirates of reason
i’m feeling a new sense of corporate treason
if I can invent a new theory each night
maybe one day i can learn left from right

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Digital Anthropology: Is Web 2.0 an Idiocracy?

By Rachel Haywire | Published: June 30, 2011
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If you are like me you might come from a generation that was raised online before the boom of social networking sites. The Internet was once a secret room that only the freaks could experience. We were trolling before it was called trolling and we didn’t do it for mob sport but intellectual exercise. My first exposure to the Internet was through a free text-based service where you could view alt.newsgroups and send email through a program called Pine. There was no world wide Internet that I could see from miles away.

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10 Reasons to Stay Alive

By Rachel Haywire | Published: June 20, 2011
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1. If you kill yourself your enemies will win.
2. You are better than your current situation and you must live in order to prove this.
3. Your experiences of suffering have gained you wisdom that will last you your entire lifetime.
4. You have millions of ideas that you have not yet invented.
5. People like you are dying out and you don’t want to contribute to this.
6. You have a torch that you need to carry on.
7. No matter how brutal they are you can share your experiences through conversation and art.
8. You have no idea what could happen to you in the future.
9. You want to finish up your plan for world domination.
10. You deserve to enjoy yourself more than you have in your lifetime.

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Finding the Light as an Atheist

By Rachel Haywire | Published: June 16, 2011
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So you think that your life is over. Your entire existence has been a struggle and everything that you touch ends up falling apart. You find yourself in a place of darkness that you are unable to escape from. The only emotions you know are hatred and anger which you have learned to glamorize for the sake of art or survival. You do not believe in concepts such finding the light beacause you are too intelligent to believe in mystic jargon. What’s the point in being happy anyway? Isn’t happiness for the unenlightened? The many? The humans?

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The Addiction to Online Socializing

By Rachel Haywire | Published: June 14, 2011
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A year ago I told myself I would quit spending so much time with online socializing and start blogging more. A few months ago my Facebook account was deleted and my private information was revealed to thousands of people. I have no idea why but for some sick reason I continued to socialize on Facebook. I’m not sure if it was my desire to show that I could live a functional life online in the midst of being a digital stalking target or if it was something more deep rooted and psychological.

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