Putting aside our other preconceptions about the art, what is left? A few floating-point calculations to harness this digital existence: words on a screen that are only illusions transfered from our minds, into keystrokes, and then into organic bits in an electromagnetic storehouse. A handful of centuries ago a man by the name of Gutenberg thought it might be nice to put our thoughts into type. Apparently only a few people had interesting thoughts way back whenever: that, or typing - typesetting - printing were still privledges afforded to the handful that could construct a complete sentence. Fast forward: now we have computers, word-processors, and the Internet: So? What is new and interesting about that, you ask. Why should I care about an exponential leap in the publishing power of the masses? Why should I care what the world thinks, and - more importantly - why should the world care what I think? And that is exactly my point: we shouldn’t care, but for some reason we do. Thus, self-expression is completely over-rated and we should not be expressing ourselves in some grand scheme to become glowing icons for humanity. Plain. Simple. No further explanation required. But that’s not going to stop me. |
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