the ~internet~
we’re all rotting and i need a breath of fresh air
the ~internet~
This excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s interview in 2003 ties perfectly to my essay about the eerie relevance of his ideas
Brock Covingtonsubstack.comobjects tied to purpose - a kitchen for cooking, a bathroom for washing, a living room for reading & socialising - but the internet isn’t an object tied to a purpose; it’s everywhere, and you can’t really turn it off and walk away from it, which is why it’s so hard to disconnect. When the internet was limited to the family computer and you had to
... See moreI was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like, I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the
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youtube.com“There are more apps than ever before..the cost of installation or awareness that has saturated and escalated so much that you can make something superb and very few people know about it.”
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humanity is still adapting to the fact that ordinary people have broadcasting capability. cultural norms around this are still being negotiated in real time. it’s actually imo more disruptive than promethean fire; you can’t use fire to burn people on the other side of the planet
x.comTo feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
I miss intentional objects with singular purposes