Blood boiling,
we ignore all the signs to take action,
distracted by the bright neon promise of a sweet new piece of technology,
we can hold in our hand,
caress in our pocket.
Replacing yesterdays now somehow inept thing.
We imagine it will give us power,
but they all just mostly suck away time we could use to really exist.
We fuck ourselves gently with promises of how our self discipline will suddenly increase,
and we will use this device every day to straighten out our life.
We can pay more attention to our children, or track them at least,
tend the fields we intend to create at the right time almost perfunctionarily,
they will tell us when we should fuck, and when we should masturbate.
Someday soon perhaps literally.
Oh the irony.
Why do we depend on these things when we have real biochemical computers to work with?
They are only distractions to the way we all have to follow.
They create frustration and guile,
never leading us to that imagined place they so surely promised.
They are machines and we are people.
Therein lies the rub.
We associate with automatons every day.
Sometimes the fellow on the phone with the hard to understand accent tries to replicate them.
But I've pissed that dude off one or twice.
Do we really want to swap intuition for cold logic in every situation?
It sometimes makes for easy art.
Though that is nothing without a clever soul behind it.
How do you, as a geek or neophile, integrate tech gracefully into your life?
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Ah...but we have not even BEGUN to mesh with the machine. And we shall. To enhance...to compete, to attempt to tap every iota of creativity within our being...and to connect to some 'spirituality' we harbor secret hopes for. And we shall be no better than when we began.
Technology is largely snake-oil -- it is nothing without those visions we, as individuals, bring to the table. But it's all too easy to lose sight of that when some shiny gadget offers the hope of an easy path.
"It sometimes makes for easy art.
Though that is nothing without a clever soul behind it."
EXACTLY!
Well said.
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I cannot say how technology pains me!
I sit here with stacks of CD's that none of my children need for they have music at the click of a button. Furthermore I feel totally intimidated by all the telephones in this house: seven! It seems to me that every single apparatus is bluetoothed, and I do not care less to use it. Whether it is off or on, I cannot even determine. BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THIS: If I did not have this computer, I would not have been able to read your mind, do you know?
One day I am gonna give you a neologism for that X word.
Blessed be, Mister Brilliant.
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Good luck finding one that is so universally emotive. bunny just doesn't cut it. (this reference only works if you've had an apple pc for awhile.)
I'm sure if you could do it it would help broaden my reader base.
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