in this part whatever of what appears to be an infinite-part series, i again examine the latest and greatest david brooks column in the new york times and ask the question we've all been wondering: what the fuck is david brooks yapping about?i was planning on reading this article when this lead-in caught my eye: Cellphones and texting technology give suitors instantaneous contact, without the stability of guidance from the community.
not to be redundant, but what?
david brooks begins the article thusly: Since April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries.
AHHHHH! my eyes! my ears! my everything!!!
so i guess the point of the article is how texting is ruining romance because this technology enables us to hunt for an endless array of sexual/romantic partners without the stabilizing force of elk clubs or whatever. i dunno, man, most people i know still meet their mates through school, friends, work, kickball leagues, etc. y'know, communities. his theory that cellphones and texting dissolve obstacles is complete bunk. you're not texting into the ether--you gotta meet the textees (hehe, textees) somewhere! yeah ok, i kind of get it. texting = fragmentation. but what isn't fragmented nowadays? why single out texting? is it any more or less a force than cable tv or google books or twatter or whatever other new medium? why not just blame alexander graham bell for starting us down this path of ruin? or fucking gutenberg for destroying the oral tradition? and why, for chrissake, conjure up the image of david brooks perusing online sex diaries?
[ed note: my badz. link to said article now provided.]
4 comments:
I would have liked this post better if you'd just sexted it to everyone.
E --- I have to admit, I didn't even read your post. But I read the article the other day and thought, "E HAS to post about this." Then I just saw from the headline that you wrote it up. So I am just assuming that the post says what I assumed it would say, which is that that article is the most retarded thing I have ever read ...
Whoah, Anyonymous. This Google thing is amazing. I'm never going to use Altavista again when I want to look at people's Geocities sites.
anonymous 1, how can you not read my only reference to gutenberg, and not of three men and a baby fame?!
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