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Cervantes
In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it
In passive consumption do we lose ourselves?
In active consumption, do we develop? (thinking of a collection that marks a series of experiences and choices)
Passively Consumed
In college I would watch many films as a spare time activity. There was a file server which had tons of obscure films and I took advantage of this.
At one point I slightly scared myself. I had this sense that film itself was a kind of collective dream, or that I’d get myself into a dream-like passive state by watching. I mean that sense of losing yourself to the narrative that occurs, where you are no longer aware of yourself in your room or in the theater, and it all falls away to the screen.
This scared me because I wanted to be as much as possible an active participant in my life. I didn’t want to sit passively and watch stories of love, and life - I wanted to enact and feel my own, even if they weren’t always spectacular and were filled with disappointment.
This is perhaps naïve but now there’s this idea that if we combine all of these datasets of film, or text, we can question the degree that text is sentient, or is feeling. This device would consume all of them.
A human writes a single poem, based on some sense of love they feel to their pet bird. I’m curious if you could make a single poem sentient. The single poem as a neuron.
This is a nonsensical question: Do films feel emotion? Does a poem feel emotion?
Does emotion lie in the text, or does it lie in me? both? Is it something that flows from me?
Lego and Collection
LEGO has transitioned entirely from a children’s toy company to an adult collector company and the community is 90% about CONSUMPTION rather than creatively utilizing the bricks
Gear Acquiring Syndrome
You hear about GAS whenever joining a new hobby. It exists in photography, with the accumulation of cameras, and then lenses and filters and other accessories. Rather than practice the guitar, different gimmicky tools are used. It can be come less a practice of doing something like going out and taking a photo with whatever you have, and more opening yourself up to the opportunity to exploit your situation with a purchase, and the situation might never arise.
Purchases
Long Island couple wants to ‘Make Christmas Great Again’ — with this giant 42-foot, $3K inflatable lawn Santa
A family purchases a giant inflatable lawn Santa. There really isn’t any kind of creativity in the act. It’s just purchasing something, and then it oddly becomes a news article. I’m not saying that this isn’t fun, especially for kids who might come to see it.
But really, if you had the financial means, nothing distinguishes the purchasers here besides the fact they’ve purchased it. They had no sense of creativity in this act. It’s just a purchase.
This happens around Halloween as well. The choice to make something, or to just purchase an identity for the holiday.
Farmingdale dance studio owner Jacklyn Proscia, 35, said the idea came after her neighbor to the right, nurse Christina Stergiopoulos, 36, said she wanted to “make Christmas great again.” …Said Stergiopoulos, a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, adding she’s noted a decline in holiday cheer in their neighborhood over the last few years, including in how homes are decorated.
Oh, this makes sense now.