We Have To Wonder Whether Digital Technology,

If Adam And Eve Were Not Hunter-gatherers, Then They Were Certainly Gatherers. But, Then, Consumer Desire, Or Self-embitterment, Or The 'itch,' As Schopenhauer Called It, Appeared In The Shape Of The Serpent. This Capitalistic Monster Awakens In Adam And Eve The Possibility That Things Could Be Better. Instantly, They Are Cast Out Of The Garden And Condemned To A Life Of Toil, Drudgery, And Pain. Wants Supplanted Needs, And Things Have Been Going Downhill Ever Since.

The Terrible Thing About The Internet And Amazon Is That They Take The Magic And Happy Chaos Out Of Book Shopping. The Internet Might Give You What You Want, But It Won't Give You What You Need.

I've Given Up Email. Well, Almost. At The Weekend I Set Up One Of Those Auto-reply Messages, Informing My Correspondents That I Would No Longer Be Checking My Emails, And That Instead They Might Like To Call Or Write, As We Used To In The Olden Days.

I Like The Idea Of Becoming [fairly] Good At Lots Of Things Rather Than Very Good At Just One Thing. So It Would Be Nice To Be Okay At The Guitar Or At The Piano, A Reasonable Cook, Perhaps Able To Fix Your Car Or Do Some Basic Carpentry, And Be Able To Write The Odd Article. Rather Than Being Super Good At One Tiny Thing, To Be Kind Of Average At Lots Of Things. It Might Mean That You Have A More Kind Of Enjoyable, Complete Life.

By Taking Out A Loan, I Am Committing Myself To Years Of Interest Repayments, And Therefore To Years Of Wage Slavery. And The Uk Has Been Borrowing Like Crazy Since 1694, When The Bank Of England Was Invented. This Means That We Are Locked Into High Taxation To Pay For 300 Years Of Wars And Other Costly And Generally Disastrous State Enterprises.