TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT

Nadia Hasan

It wasn't too long ago when I was doing the 'robot' to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This". Disturbing thought. Nevertheless, I have realized the folly of my ways and have chosen, like many others (but unfortunately not all), to move on with times and adapt to new music, dances, ways of thinking yadayadayada. I suppose that's one thing working on this website has illuminated for me; times change. It's kind of fascinating how we still are the same physical beings as we were, say, 10 years ago, yet we experience such drastic paradigm shifts every decade or so. Maybe it has something to do with the incomparable trait that humans possess that doesn't seem to infest itself in any other species; the ability to get bored. Oh and I guess I should mention that change in population, immigration/emigration, new inventions/discoveries, and the titanic, sweeping effect of modern technology MAY have something to do with it.

(For those of you who are creatively challenged, this is supposed to be M.C. Hammer)

So, the next time you're cruising these archives, or flipping through old magazines, and you think "Frig! What were we thinking?!?!", remember that it's just cuz we get bored easily. I know, it's hard to believe that once upon a time we got bored enough to think that 'dagnammit' was a cool thing to say, and that at some point in human evolution we thought 'nincompoop' was a horrifying insult, but think of it this way: in about a decade from now, anyone who says 'cool' will be a social outcast, and anyone wearing chunky shoes will be shunned from society (okay maybe it won't be that drastic but exaggeration seems to be my way of expressing ideas). Well, as far as my advice goes, all I have to say is have fun even though someday you'll look back and say 'snap, I was such an idiot', and it's okay to make fun of past decades, actually I encourage it, especially if you yourself were really into the mainstream b.s. of that time.

 

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