Our Willingness To Suffer For

Books Are Really, Really Hard To Write. They Represent A Kind Of A Summit Of Grappling With What One Really Has To Say

Web 2.0 Ideas Have A Chirpy, Cheerful Rhetoric To Them, But I Think They Consistently Express A Profound Pessimism About Humans, Human Nature And The Human Future.

Once You Can Understand Something In A Way That You Can Shove It Into A Computer, You Have Cracked Its Code, Transcended Any Particularity It Might Have At A Given Time. It Was As If We Had Become The Gods Of Vision And Had Effectively Created All Possible Images, For They Would Merely Be Reshufflings Of The Bits In The Computers We Had Before Us, Completely Under Our Command.

In The Sixties, The Hippies Said "make Love, Not War," And That Was Naive. But It Might Be Less Naive To Say "make Music, Not War," In The Sense That The People Who Create Musical Instruments Are The Same People Who Make Up New Weapons.

An Economy Where Advertisers Thrive While Journalists And Artists Struggle, Reflects The Values Of A Society More Interested In Deception And Manipulation Than In Truth And Beauty