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Posted Jan 28, 2000
I don't generally read the manual... And as a consequence I've just discuvered that I can't just edit an entry or delete one either... So my journal now contains both my opening gambit "with errors" version and "with all the errors I caught removed" version. Mea culpa.
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the network conspiracy
Posted Jan 28, 2000
The question that haunts me is,
what is the internet really good for?
(Only slightly less haunting is, why is
the internet so self-referential?) I
mean, besides text messaging... I
know people like Douglas Adams
are prone to opine that it's like
asking "what are telephones good
for..." But hey, I guess I think that's
a fairly reasonable question as well.
I'm torn between wishing I could
have a special internet that got rid of
all the porn and all the moronic crap,
leaving only the million and a half
pages really worth accessing, and
the bedrock conviction that nobody
should be censoring the internet in
any way - that it's in the end the
censors that turn art into mere
media. I guess I'll log a few entries
and see what the rest of you think...
And I put forth the open question:
Over a decade ago, Hunter S.
Thompson decalared that in the
context of AIDS and acid rain, there
wasn't much left except "television
and relentless masturbation." I posit
that in the context of the general
ignorance, laziness, and
small-spiritedness of the human
family, the internet is rapidly moving
towards being little more than the
perfect way to combine the two into
a single slack-jawed, one-handed
activity.
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the network conspiracy
Posted Jan 28, 2000
The question that haunts me is, what is the internet really good for? (Only slightly less haunting is, why is the internet so self-referential?) I mean, besides text messaging... I know people like Douglas Adams are prone to opine that it's like asking "what are telephones good for..." But hey, I guess I think that's a fairly reasonable question as well. I'm torn between wishing I could have a special internet that got rid of all the porn and all the moronic crap, leaving only the million and a half pages really worth accessing, and the bedrock conviction that nobody should be censoring the internet in anyway - that it's in the end the censors that turn art into mere media. I guess I'll log a few entries and see what the rest of you think... And I put forth the open question: Over a decade ago, Hunter S. Thompson decalared that in the context of AIDS and acid rain, there wasn't much left except "television and relentless masturbation." I posit that in the context of the general ignorance, laziness, and small-spiritedness of the human family, the internet is rapidly moving towards being little more than the perfect way to combine the tow into a single slack-jawed, one-handed activity.
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