In my daily visit to Twitter today, I saw that “#thingsdarkiessay” was trending and then shortly removed. Upon a search I saw @studentactivism tweeted this:

Overnight black South African tweeters trended #thingsdarkiessay. In SA "darkies" is inoffensive. But when the US woke up hell broke loose.

This is a clear case of different cultures clashing. Yes, Twitter is US-based and having that as a trending topic on the home page of one of the largest sites on the web could compromise its image. To my slight surprise, not a whole lot of Americans seemed offended.

But what does this mean for this increasingly global society?

I see more and more cultures blending. New ideas are being shared constantly and with more speed than ever before. Naturally, as someone deals with others outside their own little private social circle, they change their viewpoints—they have to if they’re not the majority, for the simple fact of fitting in. And this is where I see society going.

Granted, with the internet and these new tools for communication, ignorance is being perpetuated just as fast as (if not faster than) new ideas and actual rational thought. But thus is our existence. As long as humans are around, there will be ignorance and irrationality. And above all, I think an evolved society will eventually be the one to rise.

Welcome again, and enjoy!

It's like listening to people on video walkie-talkies. Where it takes five minutes to hear a spiel about why a religion is good or bad, only to get a subsequent ten-minute response about why the person is stupid or uses straw-man arguments.

I decided to keep LNF as the name for my technology blog because people have already been searching for the term and, I assume, finding what they're looking for over there. So everything is all divided up and set up the way it should be now, and I can finally get back to blogging the way I've wanted to for so long.