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I wrote a letter today to a friend denouncing technology. I felt everything I wrote was true. And yet, as has been the case since I started writing publicly, the Internet is where people are, where people read. So that’s where you have to plant your bombs, that’s where you have to travel: into the bowels of the Internet….
It’s incredible how much bad writing there is too; it’s incredible how many people pathetically, truly pathetically, call themselves experts or artists or poets or philosophers and so on — without a shred of ability or insight or existential feeling. Are you a drone trying to rebrand yourself as a human? Well, if so, I’m sorry, but it’s time to snap out of it: just be a human without a brand or identity. It’s better to start clean; we all need to start clean. Maybe you’ve made a lot of money — maybe — maybe you have a title. Maybe you’re even a professor of literature or philosophy or have published a well-reviewed book: you can still be a drone. You probably are still a drone; there’s certainly nothing illogical about a person who is both successful and a robot at heart: a corporeal body with a machine-like soul.If you have accepted and internalized in the crazy corporate ideology in which value and content have been separated — in which it’s OK to sell each other things which suck, which hurt us — then you are closer to drone than spirit; then you have stopped making ethical deductions for yourself and are, rather, operating as if you were a business entity.
