Your Life Is Not Digital: It Still Runs on Dirt, Fire, Metal, and Blood

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We have drifted so far from the physical world that we now speak about reality as if it were a software layer.

Food arrives under plastic and clean lighting, as if it were manufactured by barcode. Money moves without weight. Work happens in files, calls, decks, and glowing rectangles. “The cloud” stores our lives in a phrase so absurd it should embarrass anyone old enough to remember weather. We order, … Read the rest

Sex, music and something more

Fourth part. Please read the first part, second part and third part using links. Attention! 16+ content.

Apart from the Civil Rights Movement and the Viet Nam War, the American '60s are best remembered for the music, the drugs, and the changing attitudes toward sex. I say 'changing attitudes'  rather than simply 'changes in sexual behavior' because I am not sure that long before the '60s people were not indulging … Read the rest