Pondering over the Internet Effect.

Ok, this is going to be part repetition, part new boring stuff, but this is my blog and I can write whatever the hell I want. Within limits and legal restrictions, obviously. Right. It's my firm belief that one of the most defining features of modern society is the introduction of the internet. If, for a moment, we consider writing throughout the ages, it's always been concerning pretty much the same stuff. Things that are written down tend to belong to either one of two categories; either it's written down for practical reasons, for example calculations, inventories, to do-lists, things like that. Or it's storytelling, fiction, plays, generally stuff written down for people's enjoyment. What is stopping people from reading really ancient stories is usually not that they're "boring" or whatever, I think it's more often to do with the language it's written in. We as a society suck at updating classical works, and we end up with things like the Iliad, which is terribly difficult to understand, but underneath the tricky form and words there's a fascinating story. Errr... My point here is that fiction throughout the ages tend to deal with pretty much the same themes. Infidelty, love, hate, the relationship between parents and children, between lovers et c. Works of fiction always reflect the society in which they were created, thus we can draw the conclusion that these subject matters are somewhat permanent in society. Look at any soap opera these days, or Big Brother, or any movie made or book written, and compare it to an ancient Greek tragedy. People have had the same problems always, since we stopped pissing about as hunters and settled down in little villages. Uhm. To be continued.