nonstop action!
by A.
I’m so exhausted. I just wasted most of my time tonight writing an e-mail to a relative who seems to care 10 times more about converting me to young-earth creationism than anything else.
Got back from Burlingame today at about three o’clock in the afternoon. I was so unprepared for the last trip that I ended up having to leave my computer home. However, that will not happen again. I got a duffel bag at Target to put my clothes in while I ride my Vespa. My other suitcase is completely impossible to transport on my Vespa.
I had a bunch of stuff to catch up on at work, but it was a good kind of work… unexpected and challenging. I designed this house ad that just fucking rocked. have you ever made something really awesome for work and you just want to go up to the boss and go “Look at this! This is the kind of attention to detail that I get paid the big bucks for!”
Well, that was short-lived… I went to my work site and the ads aren’t loading at all. Hrm. I find it inconceivable that things can be working when I leave and then break all by themselves. I guess I’m just used to writing static webpages instead of using Web applications.
I have read so much of Future Shock. I know people talk about books that you are a different person after reading… this one definitely falls under that category. Let the quotes begin!
If consumers can no longer distinguish clearly between the real and the simulated, if whole stretches of one’s life may be commercially programmed, we enter into a set of psycho-economic problems of breathtaking complexity. These problems challenge our most fundamental beliefs, not merely about democracy or economics, but about the very nature of rationality and sanity.
In the end, we shall pass beyond the service economy, beyond the imagination of today’s economists; we shall become the first culture in history to employ high technology to manufacture that most transient, yet lasting of products: the human experience.
It is obstinate nonsense to insist, in the face of all this, that the machines of tomorrow will turn us into robots, steal our individuality, limiting cultural variety, etc. etc. Because primitive mass production imposed certain uniformities, does not mean that super-industrial machines will do the same. The fact is that the entire thrust of the future carries away from standardization—away from uniform goods, away from homogenized art, mass-produced education and “mass” culture. We have reached a dialectical turning point in the technological development of society. And technology, far from restricting or an eventuality, will multiply her choices—and our freedom—exponentially.
Tonight I hung out with Christen, we had dinner with her dad and his wife. We talked about learning, art for the people, and blaxploitation movies. And then we took super-fucking-cute pictures of Sota!
Oh, also, my mom got me a cake for graduating:
It’s late and I need to get to sleep, as always.
Comments
When is that job of yours going to give you a raise? You mention blaxploitation. This is Dariusploitation. Don’t you know that someone is rubbing their hands together in glee that they are getting high quality ads and other design from you for a pittance?
You’re too cute, as per usual.