Currently Influencing Pop Culture Solicitation:

Lately I've been struggling to disconnect from the daily push. Keeping to anything has become a mental decathlon of times, dates, deadlines, names, places, addresses, faces that I sometimes forget. Just forget, a brief blank in my mind. I have to make a conscious effort to step away from the smart devices. Occasionally I tune into the infomercials in my head, good old fashioned channel surfing when I hit on Kevin Trudeau telling the world about Mega Memory, his system of memory training is a favourite of mine. The mind palace technique, my mind palace is somewhat disorganized. In an effort to reorganize my thoughts I've done, absolutely nothing. Then I watched some YouTube and there was a man claiming the advantages to walking backwards. So I tried it and it's rather enjoyable. As the organization of my mind progressed I fixated; can you walk backwards on a treadmill while browsing tiktok videos?
Yes, but you look like an idiot everyone is filming in case you faceplant which is worth 52.4m views. I'll reserve my reverse walking for outdoor spaces free of treadmills and tiktok. Curious thing about handheld smart devices, or the absence thereof, when you decide to reverse walk is your eye line is parallel with the horizon instead of your feet. As trending as your footwear might be it limits your point of view. I represent the broken part of life, my pessimistic outlook on reality is far more depressing than Neo waking up in the real world to then be told he's destined to die for a cause that inevitably changes nothing. The further I walk the simpler things seems, by things I mean human nature. Still advocating for the end of the pursuit of human singularity and a.i. because I want droids like r2d2 and c2p0 instead of whatever the millennial version of hal9000 or skynet or viki might be. Keep it simple. We don't need the additional complications, ahem, back in my day we Had LGB, SMS and cash because that's all we needed. Now we're tacking on letters for everything, using chat bots everywhere and starting up a virtual currency daily. The excess is making everyone miserable and unbearable. As I walk in reverse I speculate if rather than when we'll discover time travel and I doubt anyone in the past would want to deal with the modern era bullshit non associate binary forms trying to Karen about the validity of the crypto unicorn sparkles making their a-iPhone needs yum yum to picture take.

Simplicity is traditional and tradition is human. The king's coronation exercised tradition dating back 1200 years. Tradition connects humanity across our timeline. We continue the scroll on our smart devices to interact online without ever considering scrolling was the method of interacting with information recorded on rolls of papyrus.