Slowing down. Friction for us to have so that we can use our brains and not get lost in the ‘feed it to me fast’ entertainment-like finding out of stuff modes, and more topics about how people are refusing to be online as much. I saw someone using a camcorder at the Songkran festival water-throwing activities this past week, it’s Khmer New Year, here.
For today, let me share what I found. A snippet of a conversation in an interview with David Foster Wallace, whose commencement speech in 2005 that I found on Wikipedia while reading about ‘the rat race’ led me here.
Wallace: ‘There’s an almost dread that comes up, I think, here. About having to be alone and having to be quiet. You see that whe you walk into most public spaces in America it isn’t quiet anymore, they pipe music through it… we don’t want things to be quiet, ever, anymore… hungry for silence, and quiet and thinking about the same thing for half an hour instead of maybe thirty seconds, that doesn’t get fed…’
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