age of triviality

I truly thought that the age of triviality was coming to a close with the demise of boy bands and britney spears in the late 90's.  After 9/11, I thought that we were entering a new cultural age simply because the veneer of pop culture that had dominated the previous 20 (or 30 or 50) years had been utterly stripped away by the trauma of foreign attack.  The age of cellphones and web 2.0 was dawning and it seemed to me that by bypassing the enshrined institutions of shit-brained culture, that we would all create a new culture with our own values, not the consumerist values handed down from on high via cable TV, hollywood, and clear channel.  

What I neglected to see was that the values handed down from these dead media giants had already become our values.  Now, a decade later, we have all become content producers, but the content we produce has the same stale taste of all the garbage we were brought up with, with the same fictional, one-dimensional, non-human anti-characters, the same easy morality, exploitational sexuality, black and white thinking, absence of dialogue about social problems or any self-awareness about harmful lifestyle excesses, male-dominated relationship patterns, the errancy of cliques and factions, hard-hearted communication styles, easy judgement of people who are different, etc.

The internet is, at the moment, nothing new or revolutionary or even helpful, it's just a massive expansion of the electronic media blitz of 20th century consumer culture that was killing us in the first place.  Actually, the internet is even more effective at robbing us of embodied experience and human connection.  The human body, incarnated in time and space, is where the real learning unfolds, where Being is experienced and understood.  Time is an undulating experience of metabolism, not the cold click of a digital clock.  Sex and consciousness are primary, technology is just so many toys.  At the present, the body is being swept away by techno-fetishism.  We're experiencing an inflated headspace, severed at the neck, cut off from the body. Surely this is a crime against nature, spirit, or whatever god you believe in.