Sunday, September 16, 2007

The Colonization of the Mind

It struck me - and nothing that strikes me is short of an epiphany! - that the internet and blogging and reading about a budget airline crashing at Phuket, Thailand last night and all the discussions that are going to follow and how there is no evidence that regular airlines have better safety records and reading about a thousand other obscure and significant happenings in even more obscure corners of the planet does not make me any less lonely. Strange that a connected planet has more and more loneliness!

The only thing that a blog seems to do is to invite the echoing of seemingly wise but largely useless thoughts that ricochet ad infinitum. The internet and the digital world have hit upon the ultimate shield that saves us from human experience. I must stop now and hasten, lest the light falls on pots in some special way is going to change!

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