So, I’m not really a “Redditor” as they call themselves. I only began perusing the site a few months ago, but from checking out the various and seemingly endless stream of — what are the kids calling them these days? Memes? — I think it’s fair to say civilization as we know it is devolving fairly rapidly.

Apparently, Reddit users have concocted a new time-wasting activity. Basically, instead of grabbing an interesting or otherwise noteworthy image from Imgur.com that defines them as a person and posting it, Redditors are now grabbing random images and posting them. When I say random, I mean they type five random characters on the keyboard — all consonants, all vowels or letters, it doesn’t matter — and then post whatever picture Imgur regurgitates. Not too gross; just a gross waste of time.

Yes, folks. This is where the age of the Internet has led us. I think a lot about the work of T.S. Eliot, and this Eliot passage seems poignant:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

But hey, if it’s ending any time soon, might as well waste what little time we have left.

Here are three of my “random” Imgur vomits. I was highly entertained by the ironic first random selection:

• http://imgur.com/ffdafs:
  
• http://imgur.com/HiGpr:
  
• http://imgur.com/G5Ths