The 3rd Man

I keep encountering this new phrase, “post-truth politics.” We already have a term for that: politics.

What’s wrong with the world?

There’s a problem with this world when Vin Diesel has more likes on Facebook than the population of Canada. 

Baby Humans

I find the young of all sorts of species of animals, even some plants, incredibly cute. I find baby humans horrifying. 

What happened to fiction?

What’s with all these new books based on people’s lives being passed off as the new fiction. It’s like people don’t care about fiction anymore. 

Facebook and Tumblr are the Gotham City of grammar crime.

And there is no batman to be found. 

I think google will eventually give birth to life, like midichlorians produced Anakin Skywalker.

Technology is becoming self aware. Blank stare. 

Autocorrect and psychoanalysis

I think we need to read autocorrect in light of Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, but with a Jungian twist where the unconscious is replaced by the collective technological unconscious.

Auto-correct is the new technological unconscious for Freudian slips.

Jake Gyllenhaal is the poor man’s Toby Maguire. 

On reading online comment sections, especially with neoconservative remarks

Always feel mildly depressed after reading an online comment section for only slightly controversial news articles. Reminds me of Robert Wilensky’s remark, “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”

I measure my life in post-its, rather than coffee spoons.