Did you get that? Here it is again: Happy People Don’t Watch TV
What to do instead? The possibilities are endless…
As 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…
just a joke: white man gets black man to do manual labor for him
July 2, 2009here is the video URL: http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/baylis-revolution/4505-6490_7-33357756.html
Below is my letter. Don’t know if I’m over-thinking it, but I am going with my gut on this one…
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