Google say its annual Zeitgeist composition , thenewest editionof which is outtoday , shows us the summit of what “ mattered in 2011 . ” If that ’s true , we should all be ashamed of ourselves .
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-we-googled-in-2011-5868361
What did matter on our planet this year ? Well , the most notorious criminal in the history of law-breaking was killed after a decade of searching , popular revolutions swing out the Middle East , and fervent discontent hit America for the first meter in a foresightful time , Japan support a atomic cataclysm , and engineering ’s greatest sustenance soma died . But exact a perambulation through the Google spirit of the time , you ’d never guess these things were that meaningful — all are either buried in or omitted from the lists entirely .
What was most popular , instead ? Rebecca Black , Google+ ( the Rebecca Black of social internet ) , the demise of “ Oh yeah , I think of watching him in halfway school ” Ryan Dunn , and the iPhone 5 — a product that never existed . If this is the spirit of our sentence , then we are live in a distressing time .
It ’s never pleasant to concur a mirror up to one ’s nerve and believe , Christ , is this really me ? And so , looking at the things most popular in the world , I see recessed heart , haggard skin , and an expression of despair :
Charlie Sheen
Planking
HP TouchPad
Kim Kardashian Wedding
Tom Brady Haircut
Selena Gomez Haircut
Emma Watson Haircut
All of these things generated such a flash of sake in their respective category that they were able to crock up the top ten for Google , the golden criterion of typing shit in a box online .
But twinkling is crucial — our zeitgeist is n’t a series of persistent trend , or the rightfully influential . It ’s people and things that were tossed in the grease pit of the globular consciousness , effervesce for a while , and then burned out — tablet fire sale , meme , fake nuptials , Google+ . thing that weigh concisely , intensely , and probably for poor reasons . It ’s these thing that principally comprise “ what mattered in 2011″—not the social groundswells or dead luminaries , but outrage , rumor , and Tom Brady ’s follicles . Fascinating ? Yes — in the horse sense that a high intelligence will someday arrive at our scorch major planet and put on satirical performances mocking what we care about .
So is this really what mattered , as Google tell ? No . But hey — they’re just the aggregator — we’re the ones googling Emma Watson Haircut . [ Google Zeitgeist ]
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