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| User: | blakeh (573529) 
Consumption is a double tragedy...
...What begins in inadequacy will end in deprivation
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| Name: | Blake |
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| Website: | theFIRSTCUT.net |
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Bio: | I've avoided writing this section of the site because the whole exercise just seems so pretentious. There's nothing worse than flipping to the back cover of a book and reading all about the author and his shining accomplishments, knowing all the while that the whole love fest was written by the author himself. And, of course, to throw us all off the scent, it's always written in third person (like we don't know). "Jackson has been universally heralded as the brightest of his generation... he takes a completely new approach to the creative process, which is nothing short of genius..." Blah blah blah. Who cares really? It seems as if everything we come in contact with in our day-to-day lives has been marketed to us in some way. Do we really need to add self-promotion to the mix? Probably not.
On the other hand, I am a firm believer in the idea that if this whole "online" idea is going to work, and actually fulfill some of it's promises to bring people together, there has to be a human element to it. Smiley faces and and cute chat acronyms may have sufficed when internet technology was in it's infancy, but the time has come to communicate like real people, and not hide behind cryptic handles and emotionless keystrokes. So many of us get caught up in using technology for technology's sake. Technology is not an end, it's the means. It's in this deception that technology can be so insidious; it seduces us into believing that the pursuit of information and data will help us "usher in a new age of enlightenment". Don't fall for it. If anything, that idea holds us back from realizing our potential. Our potential doesn't lie in our ability to process information, it lies in our ability to dream, create, and imagine. Data and information are fine tools, but they're exactly that, just tools. It's how we use those tools to communicate our humanity and to grow as people that will ultimately unlock the true promise of technology.
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| Memories:: | 29 entries |
| Interests: | 150: 12" singles, 80s music, am radio, andy warhol, anti-consumerism, art, audiophile, authenticity, billiards, black adder, breast cancer, britain, bust magazine, buying books, cabaret voltaire, canon 20d, cd singles, cheap trick, chicago, cindy sherman, class revolution, claude levi-strauss, claudia brücken, closet land, consciousness, constitutional law, conversation, cryptography, cultural anthropology, depeche mode, digital cameras, dismantling rogue technology, doctor who, documentaries, downshifting, ebay, economic democracy, egalitarianism, electronic music, emile durkheim, epsitemology, erasure, erotica, evolution, evolutionary psychology, exhibitionism, factory records, fawlty towers, frank lloyd wright, gender relations, german cars, gillian wearing, gourmet cooking, hi-fi audio, human cognition genesis theories, human league, humor, illinois, independent film, intelligence, internet law, kahlil gibran, karl marx, kate bush, klf, knowing karen loves me, kon kan, literacy, lobster bisque, madison, magazines, marshall sahlins, massage, media critique, meeting interesting people, metaphysics, muckraking, museum of contemporary art, music collecting, my cat grace, mysticism, nakedness, neil postman, new order, new wave, newsgroups, no logo, noam chomsky, non-fiction, nonfiction, office space, olympus c-5050 zoom, omd, one dove, owning my grey hair, oysters, pet shop boys, philosophy, photography, photoshop, physical anthropology, pi, poker, porn, privacy, propaganda, psychology, quotations, reading, recognizing hegemony, remixes, retro, robert longo, roxy music, royal rife, sarcasm, sex work, sexuality, sociology, spirituality, structuralism, synthpop, taking back resources, talking on the phone, tarot, technology and its discontents, the awful truth, the blue nile, the evolution of language, the golden ratio, the nature of bias, the prisoner, theater, thompson twins, thoreau, tori amos, transcendentalism, transferring vinyl to cd, trevor horn, trivial pursuit, unfocused unfettered knowledge acquisition, vicious pink, volkswagen, voyeurism, wax trax, william blake, wit, writing, xymox, ztt |
| Friends: |  | 93: | 100acrewoods, 7red7, _peregrinus_, _softeffects, abinka, accozzaglia, ajha, alki_chick, amyber, arien, ariesgirlie, basbleugrrl, bemocked, blakeh, bohemianmusings, carpathian_04, cheekyassmonkey, coffeelvr, dadandgirl, dibranchia, djdood, drmeow_, duetemmo, efhayward, eighties1, eiregirl, else, errantpenny, ethel, ethnographer, famousauthor, ghostjourney, gloomchen, groovyamy, gunn, heide822, imminent_ruin, jaebee, jenx, jet, juniper1, justamy, kamigirl25, kawaiikingyo, kendokamel, kitmouse, kiwikat, kynn, ladygreyy, laserbitch, lawgeekgurl, lexinatrix, lio, loquacis, lorelei_o, lorij3, lucyruthe, manna_panna, markedformetal, mistykins, myasma, nancigirl13, ninevah, no_mans_land, nocheapthrill, nymphie, pammy50, pengybean, pieces_of_ashke, pitcherthis, purplebutterfly, r0ckc4ndy, rainbow_slinky, sainthuck, saraara, sascha, seekme, shares322, sizztheseed, snabe, spacebug, spiralling, springbok1, stormer23, thatpatti, thirdreel, twirlgrrl, vorrant, wavemeister, whileyouspiral, windelina, yaaren, zyzyly |  | 8: | audiophile, gaffa, paidmembers, rarerecording, roxy_music, sociobiology, the_village, wax_trax |  | 2: | micronomicon, sacredwhoreatom |
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| Mutual Friends: | 80: 100acrewoods, 7red7, _peregrinus_, _softeffects, abinka, accozzaglia, alki_chick, amyber, arien, ariesgirlie, basbleugrrl, bemocked, blakeh, bohemianmusings, carpathian_04, cheekyassmonkey, coffeelvr, dadandgirl, dibranchia, djdood, drmeow_, duetemmo, efhayward, eighties1, eiregirl, else, ethel, ethnographer, famousauthor, ghostjourney, groovyamy, imminent_ruin, jaebee, jenx, jet, juniper1, justamy, kamigirl25, kawaiikingyo, kendokamel, kitmouse, kynn, ladygreyy, laserbitch, lawgeekgurl, lexinatrix, lio, lorelei_o, lorij3, manna_panna, mistykins, myasma, ninevah, no_mans_land, nocheapthrill, pengybean, pieces_of_ashke, pitcherthis, purplebutterfly, rainbow_slinky, sainthuck, saraara, sascha, seekme, shares322, sizztheseed, snabe, spacebug, spiralling, springbok1, stormer23, thatpatti, thirdreel, twirlgrrl, vorrant, wavemeister, whileyouspiral, windelina, yaaren, zyzyly |
| Also Friend of: | 15: aj94boiler, brainbuffet, chuckr, k_amir, noirtech, nurseedward, pteroglyph, reddelicious, rubberbandiv, sereneseraph, shadowyfigure, sweet_memories, vonwaltman, whereitbe, ycantibu |
| Member of: | 8: audiophile, gaffa, paidmembers, rarerecording, roxy_music, sociobiology, the_village, wax_trax |
| Account type: | Permanent Account |
