(commenting is indeed not working, so to respond to Jed, which everyone ought to read below)
Man, the first thing that must be said is 'Fantastic.' Thanks for being such a good writer and one so fun to read.
Beyond that, I don't know, I don't think I could come to terms with seeing in pixels or with having better music coming from computers. I myself believe in people who play guitar, and while I have fun watching people move dials up and down on some incognizable black box on stage, I would respect them more if they were playing a traditional instrument. I don't like what's happening to the human landscape, and I don't want to walk on Cheeto dust-lined asphalt. (Do you ever notice how little bare earth there is in NYC? Fucking scary. I wonder what that peninsula looked like 300 years ago.) My reaction is to walk away from what you describe, never embrace it, and hopefully, to have enough compassion to understand people who do embrace it.
But I'll stop there. This post is yours, it's fantastic, and I don't want to clutter it with overlong comments.
Man, the first thing that must be said is 'Fantastic.' Thanks for being such a good writer and one so fun to read.
Beyond that, I don't know, I don't think I could come to terms with seeing in pixels or with having better music coming from computers. I myself believe in people who play guitar, and while I have fun watching people move dials up and down on some incognizable black box on stage, I would respect them more if they were playing a traditional instrument. I don't like what's happening to the human landscape, and I don't want to walk on Cheeto dust-lined asphalt. (Do you ever notice how little bare earth there is in NYC? Fucking scary. I wonder what that peninsula looked like 300 years ago.) My reaction is to walk away from what you describe, never embrace it, and hopefully, to have enough compassion to understand people who do embrace it.
But I'll stop there. This post is yours, it's fantastic, and I don't want to clutter it with overlong comments.
posted by Tongue-tied Lightning at 3:52 PM
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hey, look at me all commenting and shit
thanks for your praise. I'm actually working on incorporating/turining this one into a longer thing, something something. your comment was good, because you called my attention to the fact that I also don't embrace any of that shit either. Yet I'm turning this into a class for "nonfiction." So am I lying? just being ironic?
your comment about NYC must inevitably call to mind the end of the great gatsby, that one passage of writing which encapsullates and transcends forever American fiction. The green light, baby.
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Ah, oh, digitalia. Just like motherboard used to process. Embrace me. Wrap your dualist fundamentalism around me, through me, as me; your series, my chain; neverending, never evident. The infantessimal. The final decimal. Running, crashing, booting, hashing, loading, dropping, cutting, cropping. You exponentially eat the world from the roots to the stem to the bulb. From the network to the cable to the screen. Our plague. A swarm of locusts, transistor buzzing, switch flipping, majestic overriding. Sweeping circuits. Love me, zero. Love me, one. And I promise you, from the depths of my being - from the dark secret of my binary soul: soon, before we will even know it, and so, perhaps already, and so, perhaps it has always been - we promise you the four elements: 01101100
i so want to plagarize that: Love me, zero. Love me, one.
maybe i'll use that and cite you. i'm already using footnotes in a bizzare way.
It's yours. What's plagairism in the 21st century anyway? Blame it on a robot, or better yet a clone. Plagairism is their raison d'etre.
On that note, this blog is titled Pinko's Copies.
(But who's pinko?)
Is he some sort of clown?
By the way, the comment above my last comment is the translation of the latter into binary.
So I was thinking about it, and I'm not sure why we're so scared of the future. Of digitalia. digitalia noun. Computer hardware and software and other organs of digital technology, taken as a whole.
I had this idea for a film where one day we would wake up and realize that we have immersed ourselves in this web of cables and buzzing and pulsing information so much that instead of using it for our benefit, we have become ensnared in this new life form, that is in fact, not passive and docile and castrated but aggressive and bloodthirsty. Sounds like the Matrix I guess. I envisioned some dreamlike sequences with stop-motion animated computers and electronics crawling around someone's room and using their cables like spiders' web and capturing someone as they sleep and wrapping them up in a cocoon of humming wires. It's interesting when you think, instead of us accessing this internet - really, in a way, the internet accesses us. Extends its cables into our lives and slowly takes over everything from the inside out. I suppose we are beings caught in a moment of evolution, about to see the end of our race as homo sapiens and the beginning of our race as homo cyborgensis. Or homo nexus? Perhaps humanity will die out altogether, and our legacy will only be a fleeting Wikipedia entry.
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