The Internet and the Mind
Humpty dumpty couldn't be put back together, All the king's men tried. The internet moved war to an immaterial place--the internet is the mind and the mind is the internet: a fractured, sporatic, frenetic--an insoluble place. Our minds can't be put back together if that was ever the case to begin with. Modernism brought about fragmentation, postmodernism embraced it and made it a commodity. Now, our minds have price tags. Individuality is sold and bought by people looking to express their living, breathing self. But that self doesn't need art, nor clothing to express it. It has words. It has thoughts. It has relationships with others which expresses as much. In the old world, this happened in a space opened up to entertain notions of gratitude. Capitalism doesn't want you to feel gratitude. It is in the interest of companies to keep the gaping hole ali...