Kolya on 6/9/2008 at 21:51
With access to all media we could ever want, are we living in all the times at once? I've found myself immersed into topics, bands, books and people who are all long gone. And sometimes that's hard to believe. It seems to make only a marginal difference whether the people I currently obsess about are feeding their cat in a flat in Soho or have been sleeping in their graves for years.
demagogue on 6/9/2008 at 22:29
Yes, history is over and the singularity has arrived.
Kind of anti-climactic, isn't it?
Kolya on 6/9/2008 at 23:45
Yeah, wasn't there supposed to be a bang or at least a whimper?
pavlovscat on 7/9/2008 at 00:48
More like a fart.
heretic on 7/9/2008 at 01:11
Sometimes I think about researching wave mechanics or the latest hot theory, or maybe delving into recent world events...or maybe just reading some Heraclitus or the odd bit of esoterica.
But then I only end up looking at more porn.
Kolya on 7/9/2008 at 01:33
Porn by dead people, I hope.
TBE on 7/9/2008 at 04:31
They're called Snuff Films dude.
I always fancy myself reading the Iliad or The Odyssey but I can't even be bothered to read the god damned headlines some days.
Kolya on 7/9/2008 at 08:08
Snuff, yeah. I was thinking more about people who used to live at the time because otherwise heretic's post didn't seem to make that much sense to me.
The Iliad is rather entertaining, especially the parts with Hephaestus the techno god, who builds himself two fembots to help with, you know, the house chores. Other cool stuff made by him includes automatic wheelchairs for the gods, un-pickable locks, all sorts of robots and a trapped bed to catch his cheating wife Aphrodite.
He then drags Aphrodite and her lover Ares in front of the other gods to shame them...
*Comment by Apollo to Hermes: "You'd wouldn't mind to lie there in bondage with Aphrodite either, eh?"
Hermes: "With Aphrodite I wouldn't even mind you all watching."
* Homer, Odyssey, Song 8, Verse 329
Sulphur on 7/9/2008 at 13:48
So even with the classics, it all comes down to porn by dead people anway?
infinity on 7/9/2008 at 13:49
The funniest part of the Iliad is when Hera goes to seduce Zeus and he then confesses to her that he wants her more than he ever wanted any of his mistresses, listing of some highlights of his 'excursions' to his wifes face. Well, of course, they do the dirty deed and he falls asleep, allowing Hera to meddle in the war.
