Facebook is now streaming movies.
Everything gets boiled down to bedrock human desires to watch Sleepless in Seattle, play Farmville, reconnect with someone from 30 years ago, and comment, "Wow! Great haircut!" on someone's page. Is that all we want? The cartoon with a character exhorting another character to sign up for G+ because it's like FB but it isn't FB holds much truth none of it good.
It's long been apparent we've gone through the Wild West best part of the internet and are now in the middle phase where everything is monetised, lowest-common-denominatored, paywalled, and made into a predictable experience (where have I heard that before). Originally it was sort of exhilarating but funky, then it became useful and exciting, then ubiquitous and fun, now it's been broken by design and meh but still has good parts.
Meh.
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hang in there! things will be better on mars - only good smart innovative people and we will create a good world there!
# posted by 
: 23 August, 2011 06:29
: 23 August, 2011 06:29
IX.
by Wendell Berry
I go by a field where once
I cultivated a few poor crops.
It is now covered with young trees,
for the forest that belongs here
has come back and reclaimed its own.
And I think of all the effort
I have wasted and all the time,
and of how much joy I took
in that failed work and how much
it taught me. For in so failing
I learned something of my place,
something of myself, and now
I welcome back the trees.
"IX." by Wendell Berry, from Leavings. © Counterpoint Press, 2010.
by Wendell Berry
I go by a field where once
I cultivated a few poor crops.
It is now covered with young trees,
for the forest that belongs here
has come back and reclaimed its own.
And I think of all the effort
I have wasted and all the time,
and of how much joy I took
in that failed work and how much
it taught me. For in so failing
I learned something of my place,
something of myself, and now
I welcome back the trees.
"IX." by Wendell Berry, from Leavings. © Counterpoint Press, 2010.
# posted by : 23 August, 2011 06:30
: 23 August, 2011 06:30
I used to wonder what people who'd grown up without memorising poetry did in their moments of idleness (as in waiting at the dentist's, etc.) but now I see they play games on their phones. I can't help but think that's not as sublime yet I recognise I'm being silly to think that way. It's vastly better than just reading People magazine.
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