I was much struck by the acceleration of the parody cycle regarding the silly public resignation/denunciation letter published yesterday in the Times.
Usually, you get a good solid 24 hours of chewing over an idea, and even a graphic, like the infamous Pike pepper-spraying vid, before the parodies start flowing.
But this time, with the original item barely published, the parodies started flowing. And it seemed to me that the parody cycle was consuming itself, getting way ahead of the need or advisability of copying the thing that had barely gotten itself read and considered in the first place.
I wrote much more on this here, and I am aware as I mention in that Guillotine piece that my complaint will largely fall on deaf ears, as the movement towards less-faster-easier over more-slower-harder is the real fundamental accelerating trend fueling the particular one I am critiquing.
As I note in the article, it is a dinosaur complaint, but it just seems to me the cycles of everything are getting so fast and thoughtless that we're going to start experiencing CERN-like time paradoxes pretty soon with the flow and ridicule of information.