If you have a minute...

Having the house to my self last night made me realise how short my attention span has become . I watched a full film last night in one go instead of over two different nights which has somehow  become my preferred method of film watching , and bizarrely I couldn't tell you when this trend started . I can tell you though after an hour of watching a film I get uneasy . Maybe films arent as good or well paced as they were , or maybe they are to quickly paced , giving everything away too fast  ? Or maybe its the instant gratification of the Internet thats always calling in the background  ; Ebay , blogger , Face book ect all give that feeling  we constantly search for . They however do it in a flash and then what ? Well that dull sat in your chair feeling returns
    We have all become short term seekers of stimulation , hence an hour and a half sat in your home feels like a life time to spend watching a film . This is more so with a family , as noise and disturbance intrude every few minutes . Of course this isnt a problem at a Cinema , but still I feel the need to eat in a film or drink . Again I think its that annoying little need for instant gratification . Its the spirit of the age. The time scale of effort for reward has changed . What may have taken weeks to get said to someone now can be relayed instantly . So then what ?
    Then what ? Its a phrase I keep coming back to. The things I would spend a long while looking forward to are now the things that are over in a flash . Yes , the internet is much to blame for changing our perception of the time scale that's acceptable for seeking pleasure . Films for instance can be down loaded , but there goes a chance to get out for a night even if it did mean a fifty mile round journey ! Ebay means I can order anything I need instantly . Gone are those Saturday afternoons off shopping ! Again everything pleasure wise has speeded up.
   For the generation that's grown up with online from day one its brought them their own particular problems , but they aren't even clued up enough to even acknowledge them . As for my generation we can remember a different age . We have had to adapt . We have seen great change . It takes its toll . This is not our natural state after all . In fact we were ambushed no less ...

Quotes taken from The Tank Trapeze / Jerry Cornelious by Micheal Moorcock 1968

02.15     All telephone lines between Vienna and Czechoslavia were cut

03.45     Prague Radio and some of its transmitters were off the air

03.30     Russian troops took up positions outside Prague Radio building

03.45     Soviet tanks and armoured cars surround the party Central Commitees building in  Prague

0.47        Prague Radio went off the air completely

04.20      The Soviet Tass Agency said that Soviet troops had been called into Czechoslovak by Czechoslovak leaders

04.45      Prague Radio came back on air and urged the people of Prague to heed only the legal voice of Czechoslovakia . It repeated the request not to resist . " We are capable of defending these frontiers " it said .

06.25      Russian troops began shooting at Czechoslovak demonstrators outside the Prague Radio building

06.30     Prague television station occupied

07.00     President Svoboda made a personal appeal over the radio for calm . He said he could offer no explanation for the invasion .

10.00     The Czechoslovak agency Ceteka said that at least ten ambulances had arrived outside the Prague radio station , where a Soviet tank was on fire

11.15      PragueRadio said " The occupation has already cost twenty five lives "

12.28      President Svoboda was under restriction in the central Committee building....