I’m kinda sick of this digital public era with its big, garishly lit public plazas and broadcast discourse. I would like a dark age marked by an underground warren of largely hidden spaces. Publics are overrated. Public figures should feel like the governed are ninjas in shadows
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Scott makes kind of a similar point in _Against the Grain_, that the “public” as you use it understood legibility to an extent and revolted throughout history particularly when writing was introduced
The dark ages in particular were freer times as a result
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I often crave social media with zero pics or videos.
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That’s been the furry reality as long as I’ve been one. Multiple Twitter accounts per person, Facebook accounts under fake names that could get spotlighted and nuked at any time, using the same messaging app that ISIS did. It’s delightful
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I was going to respond to this recommending Scott's “legibility” to you, then googled it first to make sure I was spelling the terms right, and hit ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-b 🙂
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