I found it the today, I haven’t added a new notebook since 2009, and for some reason unknown to me just stopped using this service. What’s most interesting is I hear myself in there, I still harp on these things. Fuck, I live this.
All the world is not so much disintegrating as dis-integrating. As if cluetrain ran over the whole world. The neighbor no longer needs a cobbler next door he can have one in china tagging shoes as “Italian Leather” and shipping through who knows where. He no longer has to look the person he swindles out of money in the eye because they are half a planet away.
The reason schemes like enron can work is the people running the scam probably never actually met the auditors nor a single customer. The exchanged emails and maybe voicemails but nair a conversation in the same room.
Studies show we spend more time on the computer than with our spouse. Why not? It is harder to lie to them then the internet-only-meet-for-sex-person-on-the-side.
Your identity in person almost no longer matters so long as you can project yourself or alterself well across various virtual mediums (see Clarence Boston Legal) Though he does it through physical characters the compartmentalizing is exactly the same process.
It isn’t a movie that you have to watch Amber Herd is memorable (both my spouse and I have watched movies she was in and didn’t recognizer her, and I’ve seen photos of her, and read about her coming out at that GLAD party). So here’s the thing about it that stands out in my mind, it was supposed to be Hunter S. Thompson’s origin story, what you remember is Amber’s character. She is the only dynamic character, advances the plot in a lot of ways and and outshines all the other actors in fairly dark, really dull movie.
But there is a scene that leaves you with the impression she didn’t have much say in what was implied as at worst a gang rape or very non-consensual evening at the least. The movie caries on for a few minutes (10-20) where you really don’t care about the other characters you wanted to know is what happened to Chenault (Amber’s Character). That incident wasn’t the focus of the movie, and Depp’s character goes on to marry her (so the post script says) but now I don’t want to like it for logical consistency with this post.