On
the Overabundance of Information
Yes,
like at no other time,
you have but to reach in
your back pocket for
Change
dig
like a spoiled child
into the folds of daddy's wallet to
find
information
insert a videotape
into the player
and watch yourself rerun and watch yourself rerun
I once saw a
comic strip of a well-to-do woman coming out on a crowded terrace
to announce that a replay of the first act of her extravagant party
was about to be screened in the media room
Human nature
tells us to downplay, fast forward/rewind
the value of an abundant currency
and no one knows more than you that talk is cheap, cheep, cheep
and disposable like Time and Life and News
Look at the
backlash of an era
Where more and more the symptoms show themselves -
Children attend restricted movies because
Restrictions
don't exist
(My Mother used
to give me all of her loose change, too)
and children
overspend
(a dollar isn't
what it used to be)
(and I remember
5 cent chocolate bars and a tankful of gasoline for 3 dollars...
Hell, Mars isn't even out of this world any more)
Whose face is
on the five dollar bill, anyway? I'm sure I could look it up in
no time
and how does it compare to the news on the back of Cheerios boxes
There's something
volatile about cold cash
And something timelessly mesmerizing on MTV.
Let's be brave
let's start to use the word
censor
with authority and confidence
diet
or we will end up with a generation of
intellectual bulemics
who choose the wrong times to get up from the couch and throw up
cultural enemics,
information disorders
blips, bugs, wrong channels, noise, interference, disk errors,
wrong numbers, bust signals, errors
I've heard they
infuse libraries with white noise
Treating that knowledge locked up
Like money in the bank
While counterfeiters pawn their wares on the streets
We've got a
bull market - we need the Crash.
Adrian
Hoad-Reddick