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Citizen Sane's avatar

Your insight on the life-shaping resistance of real things vs.the blobifying resistance-lessness of digital “swipe culture” is keen.

Perhaps, the cold civil war currently consuming all of western civilization is only the natural outcome of a learned habit of swiping away anything we find mildly discomforting. If I can swipe away an ad, why can’t I swipe away my wrongthinking neighbor too?

Vive le resistance; for life is found in the reckoning with difficult tasks, difficult ideas, and yes even difficult people.

Although I haven’t seen Wall-E, is it maybe only half-right? Does a resistanceless existence of screens and lunch in a cup only make men and women useless, or does it also make them casually evil, by atrophying internal resistance to moral transgression?

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Jodi Bruhn's avatar

Excellent article, thank you. There's a beauty and history to many things of the real world: a well-made saddle, for instance, whose construction doesn't change much. Even the smell of the saddle soap, the companies have been the same for ages too.

And share your appreciation of Wall-E, greatest (and most surprising) of Disney movies.

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