how can we put down roots when we live in a city and nothing is ours?
He’d been saving phone books for years – as the business section grew larger and the residential section withered he predicted soon we will all be a storefront and there will be no more private homes. Then the internet came in. No one even wanted a phonebook and he lost the proof of his argument. But look at the online profiles of your friends and ask yourself if we need phonebooks to prove we are becoming little store fronts selling our lives.
Whooooo…great post.
Comment by Lyle_s — November 1, 2010 @ 4:02 pm
thanks!
Comment by Rolston — November 4, 2010 @ 6:54 am
I especially enjoyed this one as well. Very appropriate and especially timely. If misanthropy is a dislike of humankind, what’s the word for not liking humankind broadcasting their every thought, quirk or notion all over the internet and thinking it’s interesting or funny or smart? Used to be, back in ye olden days, John Carpenter, well, he was a carpenter. John Smith, he was a blacksmith or a goldsmith or a silversmith. John Cook, that guy could COOK. Now, it might as well be Jonny Twitterdefinesmyexistence or Jonathen Facebookallowsmypersonatobesomuchmoreinterestingthanitreallyis. Or something like that.
Anyway, nice post Rolston. I dug it.
Comment by Ryan — November 4, 2010 @ 2:42 pm
We’ve become an old word, braggarts. I’m clearly not innocent…but why’d you use John in all those examples? Is that a veiled “jon”?
Comment by Rolston — November 6, 2010 @ 9:03 pm
No, I used John because it seemed to be a very common name way back when last names described what one did as a profession. Not as many guys named “Phil” or “Marcus” back then.
Comment by Ryan — November 7, 2010 @ 11:03 am