I wonder what life would be with some things that our nascent infosphere haven't forced into life now. If without our now hard-wired personalities, I hadn't seen a certain image, read this book, played that game, downloaded her illegal song, or read a random article at this accelerated point in time, and dissolved these things into my consciousness. If we all still followed the normal course of things, watching, reading, tasting it years later, when your younger, or older, or don't care anymore, when your settled down, when you had to seek it out, when life catches up. When nothing but sheer determination leads you to whatever isn't put in front of you. You hear something you'd never actually buy, a friend plays something you'd never actually play. You sit down and talk to someone not on your ICQ list. Time and your better judgement the guiding constraint on your attention, and money really doesn't factor into the picture at all. Does it make us wiser, more cultured, a better person, stronger community, more diluted, more impressionable, more lost, more bored. Giving this to everyone.
posted by Brent at 12/10/2002 06:39:00 AM | permalink |
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