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title: Bit Boy
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published: 2019-01-22
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people are, at their core, nodes on a network. given free reign and a context that precludes us killing each other, all we wanna do is be like a node on a network.
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## paaaaartaaaayyyyyyyyy
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i was at a party recently, on a variety of different substances, and i stood in the middle of the dance floor, and i planted my roots into the carpet, and connected to the energy of everyone around me.
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i closed my eyes and listened to what they had to say, everyone at once, and there was one thing that stood out to me above all else.
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> given free reign, everyone just talked about who else they knew.
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everyone there was just a node reaching out trying to find its place in the network.
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nameservers that would climb up the ladder of popularity until they found someone who knew the same people they did, and then they would celebrate.
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they would tell stories about how they knew the people they did, they would proclaim how small a world we live in, and that was more or less it.
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i myself expanded my database quite a lot that night, and by the time all the energy there was to ingest had been taken, i went home smiling ~~not only because a very attractive girl danced to king gizz through my headphones, but also~~ because id met a lot of new people, which is apparently all humans want to do.
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we find who we can, and we broadcast who we know, and we use that to figure out our position in the abstract world of meatspace.
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`:w !tee % && sudo pkill vim`
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