On the subject of having no depth.
At the moment I'm trying to read Game of Thrones, mostly because I want to watch the series and I love being that dickhead who watches adaptations of things and goes "Huh, well, in the book, which I read-".
The sad thing I've realized lately, however, is that when it comes to fantasy/sci-fi, my attention span is actually worse than when I was younger. When I was a kid I would have devoured GoT, but now my inner monologue is just a carousel of the same thoughts:
WHY ARE THEIR NAMES SO HARD TO REMEMBER. WHY DOES THIS GEORGE R.R MARTIN GUY INSIST ON CREATING LIKE...458645345435 DIFFERENT PROVINCES OR SOME CRAP, I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE STATE LAWS IN THIS THING.
I honestly think the 21st Century has slowly slaughtered my brain with reality television. As someone who masquerades as an intellectual, this is pretty fucking upsetting. What makes it worse is that I read Billie Piper's autobiography last week in a literal second. The entire content of that thing is "I WAS A BRITISH POPSTAR AND THIS WAS GHOST WRITTEN BY SOME JOURNALIST WHO CLEARLY GAINS NO PLEASURE FROM HIS LIFE ANYMORE, HERE'S 20 PHOTOS OF ME AT DIFFERENT EVENTS, WATCH ME NAME DROP ALL OF THESE CELEBRITIES I KNOW". That held my attention. This is what I've become.
The sad thing I've realized lately, however, is that when it comes to fantasy/sci-fi, my attention span is actually worse than when I was younger. When I was a kid I would have devoured GoT, but now my inner monologue is just a carousel of the same thoughts:
WHY ARE THEIR NAMES SO HARD TO REMEMBER. WHY DOES THIS GEORGE R.R MARTIN GUY INSIST ON CREATING LIKE...458645345435 DIFFERENT PROVINCES OR SOME CRAP, I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE STATE LAWS IN THIS THING.
I honestly think the 21st Century has slowly slaughtered my brain with reality television. As someone who masquerades as an intellectual, this is pretty fucking upsetting. What makes it worse is that I read Billie Piper's autobiography last week in a literal second. The entire content of that thing is "I WAS A BRITISH POPSTAR AND THIS WAS GHOST WRITTEN BY SOME JOURNALIST WHO CLEARLY GAINS NO PLEASURE FROM HIS LIFE ANYMORE, HERE'S 20 PHOTOS OF ME AT DIFFERENT EVENTS, WATCH ME NAME DROP ALL OF THESE CELEBRITIES I KNOW". That held my attention. This is what I've become.