Manifesto #7 / The Internet is Always Turned On (Part 2.)
The Internet is a glorious world-changing phenomenon on the scale of the printing press.
The Internet is suddenly feeling very shy.
The Internet thinks you’re fantastic. Truly.
The Internet wants you to get all the attention you so richly deserve.
The Internet loves your dark side.
The Internet encourages you to go there.
The Internet knows you can go even farther out there. So go on.
On the other hand, the Internet wants you to dial it back.
The Internet is feeling like a moody adolescent with no desire to leave their room.
The Internet is feeling like a 100-year-old who wants to party and get it on.
The Internet is inherently awesome.
As long as the Internet is around, the world will never end.
The Internet thinks you’ve finally gone too far.
The Internet isn’t actually into cat videos, but it swoons and coos at video clips of baby pandas.
The Internet is considering getting a tattoo of your face on its upper arm.
The Internet exists in the eternal now.
The Internet has always been and always will be.
The Internet just drank seven cups of strong coffee in a row. Make that eight.
The Internet often thinks the whole world is batshit crazy.
The Internet is nostalgic for the twentieth century.
The Internet misses Bowie and Aretha and Cohen and Prince.
The Internet appreciates big mysteries and random possibilities.
The Internet is into cave paintings.
The Internet likes jazz, hip-hop, soul, and funk.
If the Internet could have anything that it can’t have, it would be a massage.
After that, you could order the Internet a messy, dripping cheeseburger, with all the fixings.
The Internet believes springtime is for lovers.
The Internet wants the world to feel like it’s always summertime.
The Internet is in a silly mood today and wants to skip along the sidewalk wearing a harlequin costume, singing a jolly song.
The Internet can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next.
Whatever the world has in store for the next few years, the Internet will have something to say about it.
The Internet has opinions. (Which aren’t necessarily facts.)
The Internet is feeling big-hearted lately, and it wants you to feel the same way.
The Internet will always fit perfectly into those black skinny jeans.
The Internet is glad that people actually read things on the Internet.
The Internet is a big proponent of literacy.
The Internet wants you to repost this.
The Internet is cautiously optimistic.
The Internet wants the inhabitants of our world to get along so much better than they’re currently getting along. It wonders how the hell things grew so troubled and full of turmoil and damned difficult across the globe. Wars raging, daily shootings and senseless murders, violence baked-in from the cradle, built on layers of generational lies passed down to children who are being taught to serve nothing except hatred. The Internet doesn’t see the point of faulty belief systems that encourage people to kill other people randomly. The Internet thinks NOTHING has been proven, gained, or helped by this horrid behavior.
The Internet is all for lasting peace and goodwill toward fellow humans.
From the upcoming nonfiction book of essays and manifestos on the state of our world, and what’s been happening in it: The New Now / Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations, by Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster