(I started writing this entry at 4:00 this morning, gave up on it, and decided to finish it now...)
I'm so tired / I haven't slept a wink. That Beatles song = my life ATM. I'm so sleepy I can barely move right now, but I woke up in the middle of the night and just couldn't get back to sleep. I just lay there writing about a whole page of the book
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I think that the problem with the point of view of the article is that technology is developed for a reason, some sort of void that ends up being filled. I'm not saying that there aren't things lost, but they are made up for by fulfilling their purpose.
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Cameras make special moments in life less poignant because they no longer can only be experienced once.I can easily pick that apart; any loss in poignancy of the moment is often made up for by its preservation of said moment. A person revisiting old photographs can connect with the past in a way impossible to previous generations... and make that past more vivid to the next. I remember seeing a photograph of my grandfather as he looked during the war, when he was about the same age as I was at the time' we were almost identical ( ... )
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the fact that I have pictures of a shitload of moments I'd give anything to go back in time to experience once more goes to show how much those pictures really mean to me. they're just proof something existed. they're not a fucking time capsule you can jump into.
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We have not "attenuated" experience. We have made our reactions selective because there is too much experience, too many stimuli, not less. It's a healthy human reaction and a creative one, to filter the garbage and treasure what we treasure. Why should we just take in whomever is standing by the damn well?
Isolating activities ought to be encouraged, for the sake of sanity and because creativity is a fruit of reflection in isolation, no matter what sociologists say.
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