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[winneganfake]

Right. So, libraryraven posted this one up a while back, and I'm only getting around to reposting it now. Cracked.com's 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making you Miserable. I really cannot find much to disagree with here- I know my own spirits improve when making stuff, and more importantly when it takes me out of the house and into the public.

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[nihil-duce.livejournal.com]

The problem is we've built an awesome, sprawling web of technology meant purely to let us avoid annoying people. Do all your Christmas shopping online and avoid the fat lady ramming her cart into you at Target. Spend $5,000 on a home theater system so you can see movies on a big screen without a toddler kicking the back of your seat. Hell, rent the DVD's from Netflix and you don't even have to spend the 30 seconds with the confused kid working the register at Blockbuster.

This is like saying "We're missing out on all the wonderful infections we could be having. Stupid fucking pennicilin."

The writer of said article can blow me prolifically, with much verve and aplomb.