hey, that isn't bad ... i was thinking about this line of thought from awhile back as i (virtually) clicked down some random street i'd never been to on my screen...mnaz wrote:Is there a point to setting foot on open earth, beyond a proper road, given the creep of barbed-wire, or worse, naked aggression of wired digital, which makes an end-run to lock up the whole enchilada? Have you been to earth recently, kicked up dust over buried fiber-optic tentacles that transmit every reason why you needn't bother? Do we have an exit strategy from a fully-digitized earth-- every inch of it wired, solved, mapped, programmed, watched? Could we still travel to prospect genuine mystery, on location?
this isn't bad either ...
anyway, i was going to post something about how escapism is underrated, and my mind kind of wandered ...“The romance of the desert will be destroyed. Tourists will
sit in heated cars, eating the food of Europe, reading weekold
newspapers, and comprehending not at all the glorious
history, the tragedy and the romance of the Gobi trails.”
Roy Chapman Andrews. (Mayhew, 2001, p.286)"