[sabbath] [writing]

Rutt craziness, but what the hell? My show. I’ll say what I fucking want. Right? I’m gonna react to your scribal thing. I have gone back since the first of the year to my Cyber Sabbath Sundays, where on Sundays, I do not touch any electronic devices other than my Kindle to read books on – but not order them. And I keep next to me a Moleskine-like notebook and a pen that I’m holding up, and I write my thoughts down from the readings and the doings and just the thinkings I do, and they are qualitatively different than what I do when I am digitally engaged. Monday morning, I get the notebook out and I go through and say, okay, what of these things were just hallucinations? And some of them were. What some of them are just goofy musings, and what some of them are things I ought to do and things that I ought to think about. And I would strongly recommend as a practice, Cyber Sabbath any day of the week. Just pick one and just refuse to engage at all with digital technology and let yourself return to this scribal tradition. Now, good old Socrates would say that’s fucking decrepit and bad. You should not be writing. You should be discussing. Don’t write. But I’ll go back and just use writing as one somewhat retro thing.

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