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| Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
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Quote du jour 
| | You're exactly wrong. Keep up the bad work. Steve Gillmor just said that to me, on the phone, as a way of summarizing why it's a Good Thing that the mainstream media continue to misunderstand podcasting, just like they misunderstood blogging, the Web, the Net, the PC, and all the other good things that came along and flourished under an unintentional smokescreen of widespread misunderstanding. |
Try not to think and talk in terms of it
| | I've been reading (and re-reading) Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Outstanding and highly recommended. Especially in a season when many of us celebrate the birth of a rabbi who urged us to the tough work of loving our neighbor, turning the other cheek, and leaving the throwing of stones to the sinless. Some links here, here, here here, here and, saddest to read, here. |
| | On that last item, about the booing of Chris Hedges off the stage while giving a graduation speech... I can't get out of my mind the disappointment I felt when I attended a speech by Hedges at UCSB a few months ago. He was not a great speaker. Rather than speak from notes, he read a prepared text, and his manner carried a hauteur of some sort. Or maybe it was something else. In any case, it did not make him an especially likeable speaker. He also evaded (or forgot, or misinterpreted) the question I asked during the Q&A. |
| | After his speech, I stopped reading his book. The other day I picked it up again, and have found it hard to put down, even after completing it. |
| | What strikes me hardest about the book is a subject Hedges barely touches, which is the degree to which war defines countless otherwise harmless activities, from sports to business to education. |
| | We are a warring species. There is something almost canibalistic about the way we slaughter — and consume stories about the slaughter — of each other. This shows not ony in the ways we rationalize war, but in the extent to which it defines so many other subjects in our lives. |
Can feel those days getting longer already
Testes, testes, 1,2...
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