Go smash up a phonebox

Oh I only read that a few weeks ago. Great news.

Ah I see… The first part is so amazing, so complete, that I half wish I’d left it at that.

Unbelievably brilliant. Will you read the other two parts of the trilogy?

Ok then 400 tiktoks

I don't know either. Maybe we should get a massive tv series commissioned that rehabilitates the Luddites - better use of our skills and time.

Yes – totally agree. I just wonder if the narrative could somehow be shifted to mega-corporations aggressively taking over journalism (etc) rather than how shiny their machines are, would the media take more notice of the thing you are talking about?

Like people can be forgiven for not seeing 20 years ago google and co turning evil (although an evil company would probably have ‘don’t be evil’ as its slogan I see now).
But to allow a new generation/wave of techno power to emerge while mostly talking about the quality of its poetry…

The good/bad art conversation is important don’t get me wrong, I just think it needs to be part of a bigger discussion

I just think subjective opinions on what is (or might be one day) good art/writing etc are a distraction from an attempt by massive corporations to create new monopolies in very diverse areas of life.

They know it will only make derivative crap. They just want to disrupt the intellectual property system and remake it in their favour. It’s about enclosure not creativity.