As always, you hit the nail on the head! For all the reasons you laid out, I often (more times than not) feel the need to unplug and reconnect. The physical reconnection (conversations, visits, real-life experiences) are what make life truly worth living. When we take the time to wade through the fluff and stand strong in the fresh air that reconnecting provides, that’s when the magic happens!!
Thank you, Jamila! You've put that beautifully. I think more and more people are starting to get tired of the world of illusion. It all seems very impressive at first, but eventually we notice that our minds, bodies, and souls only function properly in the real world.
That's a great opening Alex. The analogy to cons and snakeoil salesmen holds true. We were sold on something which seemed fun, or even useful for the grand price of free, but we've all paid with lost privacy and the loss of wellbeing that comes from being grounded in the physical world. Really looking forward to more!
Whatta great purr-ceptice piece! (glad I stopped by!) This reminds me how prescient Baum was!--an' yes the VR/AR glasses is so timely now... The "tech" vortex... IF ONLY those've us who aspire to be BRAVE like Dorothy (all've us that "wanna go home"/ back ta the farm..) could dump a bucket've plain water on the World Wide WEFfer Witches (an' Warlocks) an' melt 'em once n' fer all!
Thank you, Daisy! I gather that you're strongly inspired by Al Capp, who was another free-thinking iconoclast who believed strongly in the instincts and intelligence of common folk (as opposed to the elites). Capp was 10 years old when Baum died, but I suspect the two of them had a lot in common. I also think Capp would be amused (albeit a bit concerned) that his distinctive dialect could someday be used to evade censor-bots and to ensure that only humans would be able to understand the person using it.
Yup, ya got that'un kee-rect! Yer the 2nd writer that figgered I wuz writin' from Dogpatch (ha!). Throw in a dash've Rube Goldberg an' a big cement-pond splash'a Paul Henning too! I'm a BIG Al Capp fan (since I wuz knee high to a grasshopper) an' deed he wuz quite the iconoclast with a dang wicked sense've humor (also used as armor).
Indeedy, a lotta AyeAye all-go-rhythms are downright flummoxed an' I hope ta keep it thatta way!
ps I grew up with a lotta old books an' I wuz partial ta Joel Chandler Harris-style-writin' in dialect, never gave me troubles figgerin' out what he was sayin' !
Ah, yes, Uncle Remus ... The inspiration for "Song of the South," the first movie that Disney memory-holed. I remember watching it as a kid. Had one of those children's books that came with the record too. Probably would be worth a fortune if I'd held onto it. Another writer of that era who wrote in dialect was Walt Kelly. Pogo and friends are as funny and brilliant today as they were then.
About a year ago I learned that here in Japan they have been going back and censoring classic Japanese movies and TV shows to remove nonPC terms and replacing them with more inclusive language. Madness.
Yup Pogo was great! I wrote a lil' bit 'bout Song of the South here, it's near an' dear ta me--James Baskett deserved the Oscar--Disney dun 'im wrong, talk 'bout bein' misunderstood! https://thcsofdaisymoses.substack.com/p/how-we-fight
I think I need to rewatch the movie and to read the book. I saw the movie only as a. Child, though I use a portion of it in a special class that I teach, I have not seen the entire movie as an adult.
There seems to be much literature from this period of time that predicts the world we currently live in with frightening accuracy.
There should be little argument that the idiot phone and our other devices have had a tremendous negative impact on not only our interpersonal relationships but even our ability to communicate with those close to us including those physically close. This is, IMO, a big part of their goal and the lockdowns, school closings, masking, unsocial distancing, business closures, etc. of the past 4 years have further driven many to seek refuge in the VR of the screen, getting us closer to their goal.
As always, you hit the nail on the head! For all the reasons you laid out, I often (more times than not) feel the need to unplug and reconnect. The physical reconnection (conversations, visits, real-life experiences) are what make life truly worth living. When we take the time to wade through the fluff and stand strong in the fresh air that reconnecting provides, that’s when the magic happens!!
Thank you, Jamila! You've put that beautifully. I think more and more people are starting to get tired of the world of illusion. It all seems very impressive at first, but eventually we notice that our minds, bodies, and souls only function properly in the real world.
That's a great opening Alex. The analogy to cons and snakeoil salesmen holds true. We were sold on something which seemed fun, or even useful for the grand price of free, but we've all paid with lost privacy and the loss of wellbeing that comes from being grounded in the physical world. Really looking forward to more!
Thanks, Ed! As folks used to say, "there's no such thing as a free lunch."
Why is this simple truth unknown to so many?
Whatta great purr-ceptice piece! (glad I stopped by!) This reminds me how prescient Baum was!--an' yes the VR/AR glasses is so timely now... The "tech" vortex... IF ONLY those've us who aspire to be BRAVE like Dorothy (all've us that "wanna go home"/ back ta the farm..) could dump a bucket've plain water on the World Wide WEFfer Witches (an' Warlocks) an' melt 'em once n' fer all!
Thank you, Daisy! I gather that you're strongly inspired by Al Capp, who was another free-thinking iconoclast who believed strongly in the instincts and intelligence of common folk (as opposed to the elites). Capp was 10 years old when Baum died, but I suspect the two of them had a lot in common. I also think Capp would be amused (albeit a bit concerned) that his distinctive dialect could someday be used to evade censor-bots and to ensure that only humans would be able to understand the person using it.
Yup, ya got that'un kee-rect! Yer the 2nd writer that figgered I wuz writin' from Dogpatch (ha!). Throw in a dash've Rube Goldberg an' a big cement-pond splash'a Paul Henning too! I'm a BIG Al Capp fan (since I wuz knee high to a grasshopper) an' deed he wuz quite the iconoclast with a dang wicked sense've humor (also used as armor).
Indeedy, a lotta AyeAye all-go-rhythms are downright flummoxed an' I hope ta keep it thatta way!
ps I grew up with a lotta old books an' I wuz partial ta Joel Chandler Harris-style-writin' in dialect, never gave me troubles figgerin' out what he was sayin' !
Ah, yes, Uncle Remus ... The inspiration for "Song of the South," the first movie that Disney memory-holed. I remember watching it as a kid. Had one of those children's books that came with the record too. Probably would be worth a fortune if I'd held onto it. Another writer of that era who wrote in dialect was Walt Kelly. Pogo and friends are as funny and brilliant today as they were then.
About a year ago I learned that here in Japan they have been going back and censoring classic Japanese movies and TV shows to remove nonPC terms and replacing them with more inclusive language. Madness.
I graduated college in 2000 but even before then, a friend of mine would intentionally misspell words for this same reason.
Yup Pogo was great! I wrote a lil' bit 'bout Song of the South here, it's near an' dear ta me--James Baskett deserved the Oscar--Disney dun 'im wrong, talk 'bout bein' misunderstood! https://thcsofdaisymoses.substack.com/p/how-we-fight
I think I need to rewatch the movie and to read the book. I saw the movie only as a. Child, though I use a portion of it in a special class that I teach, I have not seen the entire movie as an adult.
There seems to be much literature from this period of time that predicts the world we currently live in with frightening accuracy.
There should be little argument that the idiot phone and our other devices have had a tremendous negative impact on not only our interpersonal relationships but even our ability to communicate with those close to us including those physically close. This is, IMO, a big part of their goal and the lockdowns, school closings, masking, unsocial distancing, business closures, etc. of the past 4 years have further driven many to seek refuge in the VR of the screen, getting us closer to their goal.