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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 11h \ on: the internet is dead mostly_harmless
Can you elaborate?
throw dirt on it --it is dead
it is what it does --high velocity communication media --gossip dabble journal pontificate --form does little to influence the result --long form --tweets --notes are all written to be burned after reading --and unless they garner a few seconds of attention for being mildly amusing-- ridiculous --rage-baity -- repulsive -- incendiary -- then they arent even afforded their 30-seconds
--as McLuhan wrote --the media is the message
--mere knowledge of science --philosophy --the arts --is no longer a scarce resource --but practice --living a good life --possessing wealth --is becoming infinitesimally more scarce by the second --
--if everyone made hyroglyphs --cave paintings or Mona Lisas they just wouldnt be interesting today would they --
bitcoin does not fix artistic form or communication media --what is broken --it is not that posting online incurs one little to no monetary cost --for we pay in our time if notnin sats-- --the intenrt has relegated all actions to a speculation about the future-- whether it be a bet on virality of a post --meme --nft --etc --nor has bitcoin or nostr reformed artistic value --nor will it ever i surmise --but has put the onus on everybody to become unwilling patrons of the art of Tomorrow
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I love the internet. If it has a downside it's that it homogenizes us -- maybe fewer weirdnesses in the world.
But, on the flip side we get all this great woozy goofiness and when you thought you might be the only person alive who was in to turning Gothic romance book covers in to bitcoin propaganda, it comes out that actually a few people dig it.
Also, I'm a collager -- I make things out of other things. The internet made it so on can get to other things much easier.
It's not dead, just a bit boggy.
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--im quite obsessed with the dead --have learnt everything i know from them --it is the dead walking by definition
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off course it did --but to that i say it is dead walking
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No one can take the moment that you cherish something you find awesome away from you, unless you forgot to mute your phone. So as long as you always mute your phone, you get to spend time to appreciate the things. When you find something good, you sit back and you tell yourself "yes! I enjoyed that".
Just because there's more ugly it doesn't mean that there's less beauty to be seen.
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