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i hate this new world
there are all sorts of things that can terrify you about genz/gen-alpha but one that bothers me is people growing up in a world where one is accustomed to not owning things, does not know what owning things means, where having the agency to do both good and evil is a radical idea
and i must sound so boomer about all this but really it all came down to something as simple as them taking away my goddamn super monkey ball game. surely even the most cloudpilled digital native can understand why losing access to childhood media is inherently upsetting
i feel like i start to understand why the framers of the us constitution put the first and second amendments in there. as a european i will probably never be fully comfortable with the second one and it has had obvious bad outcomes. but they still had a fucking point, you know
in other words, adam and eve eating the forbidden fruit was the correct choice
if someone wants to download fucking vorophilia pornography games onto their device that should be their god-given right as a human being, if you ask me, whatever i may think of such software. there's this deep technopuritanism of our times that makes me want to stab things
i fucking hate the Christian God with every fibre of our being but He is a more merciful master than fucking Steve Jobs! i can at least be a fucking [series of exotic slurs] in this lifetime, i can do Evil, i have the right to do what i want before my supposed eternal damnation
apple's pretensions of being invested in creatives ring so fundamentally fucking hollow and cynical when they do not think software is deserving of creative dignity
a higher angel appears before god to present a new creation: a human being. an incredibly powerful thing, with its own inner world
god is about to congratulate the angel on this, but is interrupted
“look, i've lobotomised him! he can only do good!”
this is about the ipad pro
and that might seem like a strained metaphor, but fundamentally a “computer” or a “smartphone” or a “musical instrument” or a “camera” or what have you becomes an extension of the human body, and so the long arm of the corporate overlord or the state reaching in is… violating
@hikari no this is literally true on a neurological level. there was a paper doing rounds about it recently