Comments on: Welcome to the Machine.

By: RC

RC — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:14:16 +0000

Thank You Meep.

By: meep

meep — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:28:26 +0000

RC> you have reason to be weary, especially after the FISA bill was signed. I got so mad I called my Congressman and then I called my grandma to tell her that Solomon Ortiz had been lying to us this whole time because he voted in favor of the bill…
Anyway, just be careful, and use an anonymous proxy service if you have to.

Nez & Janna > that picture is totally how things are. I’m on the MAX every day and see stuff like that. It’s surreal. I wonder how disconnected we really are.

By: RC

RC — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:42:48 +0000

As you already know, Nez, whoever else in the internet pipeline that is reading my scribble is making me nervous. I don’t mean the blog readers, I mean the AT&T spyroom readers, the FBI, and whoever else is INSIDE the machine. I have self censored my comments and activities on line and in emails. Yet I still feel not so happy about the dynamic. My only sense of security is that I am the proverbial small potato, that there are millions of bloggers, billions of emails, and so on. However, I fit a profile and I am on government videos already. So have they connected the dots or not, and is my odd little life of any interest to anyone? I hope I am doing the boring thing as well as is necessary to deflect interest.

By: janna

janna — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:22:21 +0000

I wonder how many of us feel that way, meep, and think we are the only ones? Because I do, and have always, felt wary of the internet.

That picture does say it well, Nez, I like it.

By: nezua

nezua — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:04:06 +0000

I *should* feel more connected to other people thanks to the internet, right? No! I don’t! I find it isolating.

this reminds me of a foto i once saw of two people sitting not a foot from each other and...it's titled "connected."

By: meep

meep — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:00:08 +0000

sigh… I don’t know. I feel like there is something wrong with the internet, and no one else feels it besides a few of my friends. Perhaps because I have dared to look at the Machine (unlike other anthropologists – because I never got along with people) and seen that it’s just bits of twigs and gum holding things together. We’ll destroy the world by being hyperconnected, and this is the truth.

I *should* feel more connected to other people thanks to the internet, right? No! I don’t! I find it isolating. Because I poke my head into the “other” parts of the web, I find my experience doesn’t mirror anyone else. And in the real world, I alienate people by talking about what really matters to me.

Until the computer trash comes floating on our shore, we won’t know what we have done.