I just saw this, and I had to share it:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-gangnam-style-actually-study-in-mind-control/Why is that so scary? And why is it such a given? Well, let's have a look at this recent tweet from poet and national treasure Sir Mix-A-Lot:
Now I know what you're thinking. This is just people dancing to a silly song. It's a fad, like the Macarena, or bicycling. There's no reason to think that we're doomed to a dystopic, imaginary-horsey future.
Which is what brings me to Snow Crash. For those of you unfamiliar with incredible books, Snow Crash is a novel by Neal Stephenson about sword fighting and hacking and pizza delivery. It refined the concept of cyberspace and massively multiplayer worlds, helped popularize the term "avatar" and, I may as well mention again, had just a ton of sword fighting in it. It's about the most fun you can have with a book that doesn't have a carved out space for a dildo, and if you haven't read it yet, you should go do that now. I'll wait.
The rest, you'll just have to read for yourself. Go do that now. I'll wait.
For those of you who haven't read
Snow Crash and can't afford to drop the money on the book right now:
http://vis-ph.com/ebooks/S/Snow%20Crash%20-%20Stephenson_%20Neal.epubBut FYI,
BUY THE DAMNED BOOK, AND SUPPORT THIS AMAZING AUTHOR.
