Today I want to talk about distractions. The world today has so many distractions. Right now, as I type this (Ironically on my distraction free writing computer) I have a YouTube video playing. It is a video from the TV series The Orville.
[I am also distracting myself with the editing phase of this post.]
For those that do not know The Orville is a science fiction series created by Seth Macfarlane. I am not a fan of Family Guy, his most famous work, but The Orville is brilliant.
When you watch The Orville it is quite obviously a homage to Star Trek. It has humans and aliens working together, colour coded uniforms, a prime directive, and social commentary.
The first season is a little ropy. I think it was a comedy Trojan horse. Can I put it like that? Am I making any sense?
Let me explain. A science fiction story about exploring the galaxy is, obviously, going to bring Star Trek to mind. However that idea isn’t something Star Trek (specifically TNG) can claim rights too. Nevertheless I think there are those who would question it. It is my supposition that Macfarlane made the series a comedy as a way to make it different and get it green lit. Then, once that was done, he could slowly adjust it to something more serious. In my view each season has been better than the one before. Fingers crossed for a fourth season.
I don’t want to make this post all about The Orville. In order to achieve that I should stop letting myself get distracted.
Technically, I suppose, I have done that as this is a new editing session from the last time I said that.
I saw something on Facebook the other day about life being better before social media and maybe the internet in general. I am inclined to think there might be something to that.
I remember dial-up internet and only having one computer for the whole family.
(This is funny. My grammar checker doesn’t like the phrase ‘dial-up internet. We have come so far even the computers don’t remember that time.)
There is an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, (I, Robot… You, Jane) that deals with the early internet. It is not one of their best episodes. It does, however, have a retrospectively funny line about being able to tell someone wasn’t online because the phone wasn’t busy.
They say that silence is very important. They say that our minds were not designed to be constantly stimulated. Yet that is what we have in this day and age.
104 words of this to go and then I can do something else. I am still distracted. I have had a long day today.
(Only true for the original writing. This edit is being done at 0756.)
104 words of this to go and then I can do something else. How do I keep from getting distracted?
Obviously I can shut off YouTube. For reasons I cannot understand I am not doing that.
(I didn’t then I am now.)
Do you ever have that battle with yourself? Where you are doing something that is annoying you? And you know your future self is going to be annoyed and yet you can’t seem to stop. I know that my future self is annoyed with me right now.
It is now another day – and we are so far adrift from when the above draft was written it is almost completely meaningless. I will leave it be. It can be a monument to my deep personal stupidity.
I just wanted to say that I have checked this post. I really have. Unfortunately my particular combination of dyslexia and dyspraxia makes it really hard for me to spot typos. Please enjoy and I’ll try not to make too many errors.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SDuKYJBkJm
Unstable Orbit 