Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Schoolchildren drawn into little chalk paddocks is a bit on the nose https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1260689299458027525 …

How is that more dystopian than the fact that for the rest of the day they're confined to much smaller rectangles? (And that even within those, they are narrowly constrained in their posture and movement.)

Curious, David, do you mean sitting in place (etc), or the prisons of their tiny rectangular screens?

The former! Although it is true that they are narrowly confined on the latter too, the size of the screen isn't a good measure of that confinement, any more than the size of their retinas would be.

If Roger Federer played tennis or Martha Graham danced while restricted to a 10 inch arena, they'd be less interesting. Current computers throw away almost all our capacity for sensation & action, & make computation into a tiny part of the world, not the entire world

This is why I'm for people choosing voluntarily. Those who want to try their luck seeing Federer live from the Wimbledon stands, can. Those who prefer to watch at home on a giant 4K TV, with camera angles chosen by professionals and commentary from former greats, can do that.

I'm not talking about watching. I'm talking about being.

Being Roger Federer is much more interesting & expressive if you can swing a racket and move around a court than if your only expression is via a keyboard. For him, the latter is a prison.