My Parents Were Kind Of Like Me

Individual Web Pages As They First Appeared In The Early 1990s Had The Flavour Of Person-hood. Myspace Preserved Some Of That Flavour, Though A Process Of Regularized Formatting Had Begun. Facebook Went Further, Organizing People Into Multiple-choice Identities While Wikipedia Seeks To Erase Point Of View Entirely. If A Church Or Government Were Doing These Things, It Would Feel Authoritarian, But When Technologists Are The Culprits, We Seem Hip, Fresh, And Inventive. People Accept Ideas Presented In Technological Form That Would Be Abhorrent In Any Other Forms

The Nerd Flavor Of Masculinity Has Overwhelmed The Macho Kind In Real-life Power Dynamics, And Therefore In Popular Culture.

Digital Technologies Are Setting Down The New Grooves Of How People Live, How We Do Business, How We Do Everything--and They're Doing It According To The Expectations Of Foolish Utopian Scenarios. We Want Free Online Experiences So Badly That We Are Happy To Not Be Paid For Information That Comes From Us Now Or Ever. That Sensibility Also Implies That The More Dominant Information Becomes In Our Economy, The Less Most Of Us Will Be Worth.

An Economy Where Advertisers Thrive While Journalists And Artists Struggle, Reflects The Values Of A Society More Interested In Deception And Manipulation Than In Truth And Beauty

What Does It Mean To Not Be Alone? I've Approached That Question Through Music, Technology, Writing And Other Means.