may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Tuesday, October 18, 2011

SOCIETY FOR REDUNDANT TECHNOLOGY

Never embraced egoic "i"culture
live without ipod,iphone,ipad, i hear
Steve Jobs has to now as well
One step removed from technological innovation
my home is strewn with videos for VCR.s cassette tapes for tape recorders
exercise books for hand written poems
self-published tomes for sharing among poets
I see the digital children focused upon their gadgets
they are in a virtual universe.I live in a mobile museum.
Some friends still type their novels.Some write letters-and mail them!
We find refuge at garage sales-where last year's fashions are recycled endlessly
It took years to get a bottom line cell phone.
Do not ask when Kindle or Nook will change my paperbook reading habits
When all forests are depleted,perhaps then we will turn to the new
But by then,electricity and batteries will be redundant too!

APPLE,AMAZON,FACEBOOK,GOOGLE
Facebook begets Google+
iphone begets Android
Amazon begets icloud
Paypal begets Google Wallet
Facebook relies upon Moore's Law
iphones  link to ipads
Apple Facetime begets Google +Hangout
Patents beget jurisdictional lawsuits
Where will your apps go next?
Is there an app for happiness?

BAUDELAIRE,JEAN-PAUL SARTRE=PUBLIC PERSONAE PRIVACY
Counter-intuitive to expect privacy from those who live in public-
whose tiniest warts are exposed on YOUTUBE,TWITTER (often by themselves-
whose persona is tied to public apprehension of their crafted media identity
like Christopher Hitchens ,Roger Ebert or Ashton Kucher
Was it Norman Mailer who wrote "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF?"
Was it Andy Warhol quoted "every person will soon have 15 minutes of fame"
Bowie/Lennon"Fame-puts you there where things are empty"
Mark Chapman using CATCHER IN THE RYE to become infamous by killing the famous
Borrowed luminosity comes from marriage to fame(Jay-Z/Beyonce- or divorce =Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor)
Fame as ephemeral as fog/sought after by gossip columnists,pop stars,journalists-
people mistaking the person for the message-buying Steve Jobs rather than an APPLE.
Illusion of FRIEND on FACEBOOK-you may never meet/greet or know these folk who claim you
and LIKE may mean less the more it is used.Baudelaire chose crowds to hide his introversion
Sartre exposed him as a voyeur.We watch the stars for falling angels-from Marilyn to Lady Ga-Ga to Amy Winehouse to Janis Joplin
We never knew then-personally,as friends.We claimed them as cannibals claim visitor-to devour rather than offer devotion
Names change-the process stays.Privacy is now FACEBOOK,gossip TWITTER
Soon you can see your mirror on YOUTUBE.15 seconds of fame,in a clip you made yourself-uploaded down
Global village needs more local clowns
 

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