All credit to the plain text nerds of yesteryear. Still, I'm happy to have inspired you by sharing the idea.
When you were talking about the "zen" software I thought you made it up. Boy was I surprised when I read the article you linked about it. That is indeed very dystopian. Thanks for sharing.
I'm on the side of the man enjoying a cocktail while swimming in a bin full of water.
binman is too aggressive but the filming man is invading his right to a swim in the bin
if I was minding my own business being weird in my garden I would also get extremely aggressive towards a guy in a car who pulled up and started filming me
Library now contains Cory Doctrow's personal notes on this Danny O'Brien presentation from NotCon 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbqrxmUlQg
I believe this applies to everything digital right now. At the risk of sounding elitist (I'l definitely sound elitist), maybe things are like this: More accessibility = easier to make = less effort = less personal expense = less soul.
There's a reason old pieces of art inspire awe; once you realize just how much effort they must have taken (and here I'm just repeating what your entry says), it's incredible that they could have been made at all
I enjoyed reading that very much :P
Thank you very much