post.modern.post

broken and gone. I got rid of the frame right before i met somebody who could've fixed it---easily.

how every day feels right now

We lost power last week. For about 24 hrs. And except for the fact that we'd just been grocery shopping and some perishables had to go afterwards, I feel like it was good for all of us... especially when power started to run out on phones (mine didn't, but got pretty close).

That feeling of it being dark and you having to actually DO something about it, not to mention the extremely effective lesson of not watching TV and sitting around blinking at each other wondering what we do to relate when there's not a television to congregate around, was worth the price of admission. We burned candles, we read books (sort of. While it was light, anyway...) We played guitars... well, only I did that, but the point is that it always gives so much insight when you put the electronics down and react with the people and world around you. I wonder if we quite realize how the internet is changing us. I'm sure some of it is for the best-GPS, for example- but the opinionated trolls, the instagram-ing of life experiences, the detachment, and the information---both overinformed and useless and downright false---make me wonder deeply what we've unleashed. A good example is the "smart" TV and Alexa device that we've learned---big surpise---are spying on us. Or the fact that guess what Google (who by the way powers the platform I'm writing on right now) knows and tracks where you are and how long you've been there (on an android, anyway). It's all part of the notion of making life "smart" and seamless, but you certainly give up something to make life so personalized.