Garnar states his credentials on page 31. “The sheer number of CDs serves to make clear I take my music seriously.” Okay, then if ownership, possession and unrealistic quantities are your criteria for level of involvement – why am I not surprised that you are writing about materiality and that your whole self-image equates to economic materialistic control. Not an unbiased observer.
His slant on iPods powerful effect on establishing non-linearalness in the thought process was well written. The tactile, ownership, physical manipulation, categorizing and obsessive behavior was wasted on me. Every object has its stack. Every stack has its opportunity to someday be looked at seriously and then discarded or restacked. My wife makes me rent an office a few blocks from the house because she cannot handle my level of organization, or lack thereof. The right amount of space is crucial to a healthy relationship… as is the plurality of media (trying to segue my digression back on topic).
I did appreciate “the tendency to place the lower-case letter “I” in front of a word to indicate a move away from “the real world” to something virtual, electronic, digital, based in information or how-ever-else-you-want-to-describe-it.” I wish he had taken one step further and discussed the obvious self-centeredness involved with this virtual world and away from the communal based ‘real world.’
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