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I'm ditching Facebook.
Mar. 22nd, 2018 12:43 pmConfession time: I have never really liked Facebook. I have a lot of the same complaints about its format and the way it skews communication that I did about Tumblr, and it has been no secret for years that data gleaned from people's activity is mined for third parties to try and sell them products, and Facebook algorithyms curate people's feeds to this end. But this newest crap with Cambridge Analytica is really the straw that broke the camel's back.
What I really need to do is blog here, which I said I was going to try and do more often.
In other news: yes, X Files is back and has been for a few months. No, I have not been watching it (yet) for two reasons: one, the way it contributed to conspiracy theory culture bothers me as much as it did when I blogged about it last year. I feel like it gave a lot of validation to people who are now devotees of Breitbart and Infowars - and everything Chris Carter has said indicates that he really believes he is "shaking up the sheeple."
Two, I binge-watched the entire run of Twin Peaks, much of which I had not seen since its original run in 1990-1991, along with the new third season, which ran on Showtime this past summer. And having done so, I now see how much X Files was influenced by it, almost to the point of it being a straight lift of some aspects of it - like it was created to fill the void Twin Peaks left when it went off the air.
And now I wish we had gotten a spinoff about the Blue Rose division of the FBI - David Lynch's idea of a FBI task force that investigates paranormal occurences. Except one could kind of say that season 3 *was* the Blue Rose spinoff.
I am sure I will check out the new episodes of X Files at some point.
What I really need to do is blog here, which I said I was going to try and do more often.
In other news: yes, X Files is back and has been for a few months. No, I have not been watching it (yet) for two reasons: one, the way it contributed to conspiracy theory culture bothers me as much as it did when I blogged about it last year. I feel like it gave a lot of validation to people who are now devotees of Breitbart and Infowars - and everything Chris Carter has said indicates that he really believes he is "shaking up the sheeple."
Two, I binge-watched the entire run of Twin Peaks, much of which I had not seen since its original run in 1990-1991, along with the new third season, which ran on Showtime this past summer. And having done so, I now see how much X Files was influenced by it, almost to the point of it being a straight lift of some aspects of it - like it was created to fill the void Twin Peaks left when it went off the air.
And now I wish we had gotten a spinoff about the Blue Rose division of the FBI - David Lynch's idea of a FBI task force that investigates paranormal occurences. Except one could kind of say that season 3 *was* the Blue Rose spinoff.
I am sure I will check out the new episodes of X Files at some point.
