It's so dappled back here. It's always causing a problem. I am.

I am on the CV. I'm on the CV.

I'm on the television.

Whatever you want to call it.

I'm streaming.

21st century.

Streaming. Who would have thunk it?

It's funny, you think about, oh, we never got flying cars. You know,

we never got moon cities or underwater bubble cities like Epcot. But what do we got instead?

We've got Twitch streams. And I'm not saying that to disparage them, really. None of that

shit's in there. If you think about all that high modernist

sci-fi, how much time do they spend on entertainment, you know? Uh, things like image transmission

and the internet. There's nothing even close to the internet in any of that mid-century

sci-fi shit. But that's because they didn't realize that at some point, the deal was

going to break down and people are going to have to replace any kind of meaningful existence

with a speculation, an interaction with entertainment.

So what is shock? That's where all the actual sci-fi shit happened.

Instead of having a moon city, I get to sit back here and talk to my phone, my telephone, and have thousands of

people watch me over the course of the broadcast and its afterlife on YouTube.

An entirely different place to watch videos.

And that's because if we had moon cities, if we'd actually been able to muster that sort of social resource to do that,

we probably wouldn't have Twitch, realistically.

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