It comes to thought that the distribution of available music become easier, and as such, just like the information we gather, we were provided new things, sexy things, things that we would never have heard or seen otherwise (in the case of 2girls1cup - stay away from googling it - some things we never wanted to see). We moved our rock gods into a distributed network of demi-gods, and then....then the world was an artists.

Which of course brings me to a completely unrelated question, about another popular new age topic: Relationships. Have we distributed our feelings? Utilising different friends for different purposes. Has monogamy (which has itself become almost a monotheistic ideal) become an illusion because we've surrounded ourselves with a million (well, plus 700 according to my last facebook count) alternatives to who we want to be with at any given stage? Has an era of polygamy been forced upon on, through distributed empathy?

Ian M. Banks' Culture looks something similar to this, it also looks something similar to a hippy love fest (which in turn may have affected us somewhat). As we further distribute emotions, work, culture and community, where does the sense of self lie? These are not important questions, they are important experiences though, and the permission that we give ourselves to move away from the ideals that we've been sold through romance, television and most importantly a shifting benchmark of family values. The world around us may look and feel completely different from our expectations of it, yet here we are living in it, surrounded by it and surviving. Maybe it's time we give ourselves permission to be different from what we expected.

I know I have, of course...Apparently I'm crazy, some people refer to me as god.