It’s only mundane until you sit down, open your eyes and realize that you literally live in an era where prosperity, technology and human cooperation has advanced to the point that not only is there now what is effectively a world-spanning electronic mind but it is so ubiquitous and accessible that you can and do choose to use it to spew your ill informed and noxious opinions in a public format that can be read by any of the thousands of literate users scattered across the world, separated by hundreds of miles and hundreds of cultures and hundreds(?) of nations and then be told by any one of them at any time in a pseudo-anonymous format that ‘you are wrong, you are stupid, your mom is fat and your dog ran away because you smell weird and because of this, I’m going to hunt you down using Bing Maps (Google maps is too good for you) and end you with this precisely manufactured tire iron that my ancestors would have needed to spend months worth of wages on but that I could obtain for like $50 on Amazon (affiliate link) due to the miracle technology that is mass manufacture’ before utilizing technologies available on an average smartphone that range from positioning data coming from the literal space satellites in orbits just higher than the orbits we have kept a continuous human presence in for long enough that if it were a human being bound by the United States legal system it would be allowed to drink to the digital camera and storage that could be used to record and document the entire routine of a totally unsuspecting person over a month to the WIFI/5G/Bluetooth used to connect and track the AirTag that was slipped into your bag which only a lifetime ago was only a gadget that fucking James Bond could get his hands on but now is available for like $30 on Amazon (affiliate link) all to find the best time to get behind you and execute the perfect stupidity-erasing bludgeoning is probably what I would write if I disagreed with you.

I agree: we live in highly mundane times. There’s no reason to watch our backs anymore.