I am upset.
There already exists in my dome this ongoing conversation/argument over technology; for instance, when I'm about to post something here or elsewhere I consider how it might be more fulfilling, etc. to write it in my notebook, or sketch it, or whittle it or bake it or knit it or or or...you get what I'm saying. I can barely remember a time before the internet and for some reason this makes me feel weird. Which came first: Guy Cox or the internet? Sometimes I barely remember.
I love how the World Wide Web, the internet if you will, can accomplish some pretty beneficial things, like keeping us in touch, getting me sick pictures and music, etc. At the same time I hate probably 1 trillion things about it. Specifically, I hate how sometimes (read: often) it will hijack some totally honest attempt at homework by five hours of looking at dogs riding bikes, cupcake porn, or some skinny boy's fashion choices in Sweden. Life is hard. Whatever though, as with anything else, it's all about striking a balance and all of that trite commentary. Moving past what I can sum up as "The Biggest and Most Pointless First World Problem Probably Ever", I am not going to spend even one minute of my life thinking there's anything positive to say about Kindle. NAH.
Need I remind anyone here that the word "kindle" means "to set alight" and, if we've learned nothing from Mr. Ray Bradbury, setting fire to books is aaaall bad. I mean, Moira, if you had this bullshit Kindle thing, the magic that was involved in losing Anna Karenina would be totally lost. I like feeling my books/newspapers/magazines up (that was weird to type). I like making notes in my handwriting in the margins, underlining, and all in all just straight up handling. I think the thing that probably worries/upsets me the most is thinking that technology like this will decrease people's likelihood to visit my favorite places in the world, aka bookstores and libraries. And then they would close. And then the world would end. Or at least my world.
Other new fangled technological advances that I will not be repping anytime soon: Twitter. I swear, if I get one, I give you permission to twitter about how I'm a big asshole. Then we can send each other books through our iphones and twitter about how much better our lives are without needing to ever touch anything except our laptops, iphones, and...kindles. What? I don't know.
Also, after having the previously mentioned "inner-dialogue" about blogging, etc. I have decided that I am going to blog whatever the ffff I want to 24/7 since Moira and I seem to be the only ones hitting this up anyways. Where you May Babies at? Be prepared for dancing/prancing/romancing music, probably a lot of lists, and more updates on the fall of civilization.
I'm just going to go ahead and turn my attention to this homework assignment that is due in approximately 8 hours.
Twitter you later, obvi.
Here's the thing I just realized about the Kindle: why would you WANT to have 1,500 books at once? Like, what is the point of that? Is it like you're halfway through War and Peace and suddenly decide you need a little change of pace, so you flip over to James and the Giant Peach? Is it like you're at a party and you're DJing books and at first you thought everyone would be really into Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out you've actually got a Everything Is Illuminated crowd? Why is this practical at all?
ReplyDeleteI don't think Twitter is related at all to this, by the way. Twitter is just an extension of Facebook, text messaging, and is essentially an application for an iphone, while Kindle on the other hand is a tool to kill everything we hold sacred about books and words (i.e., touch, smell, aesthetics, etc.). I'm with you, girl. No Kindle of my bookshelf, thank you very much!
I def do not think Kindle and Twitter are necessarily super-related, just that they both simul blow my mind. Although I suppose if I cared that much about being anti-technology I would not be bloggin, facebookin, etc.
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