can_vs_should unhinged 'i feel we're at a moment when technology has far outstripped other human capabilities. you see this in so many ways - increasing economic disparity, the hatred and conflict and terrorism in the world, our own political dysfunction. it seems to me that, at some point, if we're going to survive, we have to start to identify undesirable aspects of technological development and say no to them. it's extremely unlikely but it's actually not inconceivable, that after an unintended nuclear explosion and a few more power plant disasters people will say 'we CAN split atoms, but we're going to choose not to. we're going to get together as an entire planet to ensure that this thing we can do, we're not going to do.' with GMOs, and recombinant DNA in all it's forms, we're already hearing people saying, 'just because we CAN do it doesn't mean we should.' but our embrace of the new digital technology? it's been headlong, despite obvious negative consequences. i mean, the internet has almost destroyed journalism! how can you have a functioning, complicated democracy of 300 million people without professional journalists? the boosters are always saying, well, you can crowdsource it, you can leak it, you can take pictures with your iPhone. bullshit. you can't crowdsource working the capitol beat for twenty years. we need to think critically about the consequences of our machines. we need to learn how to say no, and how to support the vital social services, like professional journalism, that we're destroying.' - jonathon franzen 171126 ... f Journalists are liers, they don't write stories for the right reason,they are again just a group of people, fitting in to what they do. 171127 ... f motivation is doing something for money, thats why i get out of bed in the morning. 171127 ... unhinged (motivation is only about money if you've been brainwashed by capitalism) i meditate i read i write words and music and none of that has anything to do with money 171127 what's it to you? who go blather from