Normally I am amused/depressed that our society, having reached the apex of technological development in human history, so often devotes this unbelievable technology to looking at videos of kittens on the internet. I would love to have to explain LOLcats to my great-grandparents who risked everything and sacrificed to come to this country, determined to labor their whole lives, to create new and better opportunities for their children, grandchildren and me, wherein I explain to them that all that was just preamble to cute things on the internet and illiterate people typing comments with no editorial discretion in this magic contraption (consarnit!) It’s bleak yet very pursuit of happinessy. Then I saw this, which wouldn’t make any sense at all to anyone just a few years ago (home video? vacuum cleaner? ROOMBA? kittens?), but which speaks to us in an instantly recognizable language now, and more importantly, made me giggle out loud. My heart can’t stop giggling when the roomba slides into the kitten, and he remains unfazed and befuddled. This is the world we’ve made.
Way more people watched that kittens video than signed up for our end torture petition.
Winter Songs: It’s cold again, so Buckingham Nicks’ Frozen Love (get it?), and Races Are Run.
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