…that I did not ask in today’s edition involves intimacy. I’ve noticed that we have a false sense of intimacy with “God” because the government is archiving our emails and shopping lists.<\/p>\n
Yet what about this idea that the more details you offer about yourself, the closer you are to people? This might make an interesting game of International Trivial Pursuit were there not such widespread panic about something unexpected happening; in other words, were it not a psychic corner we’ve painted ourselves into with this mix of technology and obsession over presumed safety.<\/p>\n
One thing about the technosphere is that it’s all-but-entirely predictable. It’s one of those Aquarian models of pattern establishment that, within very narrow parameters, basically stays the same. The whole environment is set up on an acceleration and complexity curve — the speed always increases, the files get heavier, the games grow more complex. That’s a form of change, but it, too, is predictable because it exists within parameters.<\/p>\n
The environment is specifically “safe” because nothing out of the ordinary can occur, such as when you actually meet someone. I have found this particular phobia (“What? We might meet<\/em>?”) to be halfway between frustrating and (in my demented hobby sociologist way) amusing. There is always the implied notion, “You could be a ____”<\/em> [reach into your 12th house and fill in the blank: serial killer, Tantric master, loser, someone offering me what I really want, already married, too good for me, etc.].<\/p>\n Speaking of meeting — I have a notion to get out of Kingston tonight and head down to the city — probably the Village — to find something new to do and take some street photos. If you’re in that neighborhood or if you can get there, and you would like to…meet in person…you’re invited to drop me a note. My cellphone has gone missing, so it’s dreams – at – planetwaves.net.<\/p>\n Stay tuned<\/strong> in a little while for Fe Bongolan’s “Fe 911” piece on the forthcoming tax revolt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …that I did not ask in today’s edition involves intimacy. I’ve noticed that we have a false sense of intimacy with “God” because the government is archiving our emails and shopping lists. Yet what about this idea that the more details you offer about yourself, the closer you are to people? This might make an … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[456,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}