With some of the older posts now, a feeling that I sort of caught coming early and hence stopped posting until I figured it out. Still havent entirely, but I have a few ideas.
Serious town! Too much so in some cases. Dunno. Not visual enough, certainly.
What I -like- about the internet is that it fosters a kind of communication similiar to driving with people for a long time. It’s basically my favorite mode of parliance with people. It exists also in playing video games with people for a while, and sometimes (though rarely) in watching movies. It exists very much so in instant messaging and facebook, and is a kind of a richer species of the chatroom phenomenon oof being in a dark room with a collection of people.
The idea is that the conversation is never -quite- done, but that it tolerates gaps and silences much moreso than does face to face communication. In a car this is thickened by the unnaturalness of trying to face interlocutors and by the amount of time spent around them in one sitting. The distance (and at night the quality of the silence) collects until it is a kind of permeable barrier. It allows simultaneously for a phenomenal amount of privacy as well as comraderie. The internet fosters and creates this kind of thing with time-lapse communications like blogs and forums. What’s neat is that the longer the intervals and the more thick the barriers, communication can become more associative. So like, posting a song to a youtube video’s comments is a responce..etc.
Dunno. Anyway no idea when/if more consistent posting here. But I think it has something to do with graphics.
If I ruled the internet it would look like this:
