Did you get that? Here it is again: Happy People Don’t Watch TV
What to do instead? The possibilities are endless…
Happy People Don’t Watch TV
January 6, 2009
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Poem: aseasonal affect disorder 112008
January 5, 2009As much as I like (make that LOVE) my new job…I have deep-seeded philosophical objections to spending hours of day in an office, in front of a computer. As opposed to, in direct interaction with communities of living organisms in an environment not wholly manufactured by us. Many of my poems grapple with technology and its role in industrial societies as a(n often unnecessary) mediator interactions between self and other. Yes, we use it to break down barriers. And it also constructs new barriers, creates new forms of intense alienation, corrupts our priorities and distorts the way we perceive and think about and ourselves and others. Plus, so much of it is just…crap. But whatever. Here we go…
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Just Thinking Out Loud, Poetry, art | Tagged: alienation, computer, happiness, industrial society, manufactured environments, modernity, office, perpetual twilight, poem, progress, SAD, scientific study, seasonal affect disorder, seasons, technological criticism, technology, television, tv | 
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Equal societies are safer, healthier, happier
July 24, 2009These days have me questioning our current predicaments: Why did we get to where we are at today? Two answers, two sides of the same coin: Greed and need. Read the rest of this entry »