An Endless Maze of Things I Can’t Afford
While doing this assignment, I realized that I currently have 5 tabs open and over 10 quick links ready to instantly transmit my attention to anything else but my homework. My final thought is that I have come to agree with Nick Carr that Google is making us stupid. This thirty minutes is a direct replica of his example of our minds being trained for mass consumption on a lower depth of thought, the amount of info I gain in 30 minutes on the internet is infinitely greater than if I were to be searching local news papers and hearing by word of mouth in the 50’s while only utilizing a fraction of the effort.
Three minutes into my initial browsing I always have to check automotive dealership websites that specialize in my type of vehicles. (wickedly fast and completely pointless). My routine behind this is to hopefully stumble upon a car that I find interesting and stare at it for a few minutes, crunch the numbers, financing choices, weigh the pros and cons of owning this vehicle and then move onto the next one. The fun part (for me) about this is the hours of research I will spend on one of these cars. The questions in my mind run over and over again and its not the basic questions of owning a vehicle. I am more concerned with who built the vehicles engine and how many miles are on the valve springs? Or what duration of lift is the aftermarket camshaft instead of how much cargo space the trunk has. Well today, I found nothing that peaked my interest so I moved on.
17 minutes in I jump into the next phase of internet browsing. Due to my disappointment in finding a vehicle I desire, I browse through websites that specialize in mods for my Camaro; in hopes of building my car into a better platform. This is tricky because I have to choose which mods I want first and what I’ll have to wait on, yet again weighing the pros and cons of price and performance. Maybe a new supercharger? Well I already have a 200mph car, I probably don’t need more of that for the street and that’s gonna cost me 7k minimum. Maybe some aesthetics like new wheels? No, that requires a new tire and I just dished out $1000 for a new set. In the end, I check my bank account and realize none of these are financially plausible if I want to pay rent next month.
30 minutes hit and my timer rings to keep me from continuing this fantastically addictive process. This may have been odd to read as its a rarity anyone else shares the same passion of automotive design that I do, but the story is still the same for basically anyone else on the internet today.
Advertisement — Desire — Painstaking searches for the ideal product — Disappointment upon the realization that you can’t afford half of what you want.
