I like common scars... I think that most people do. We are social animals, after all. We like anything that can connect us with our fellow plodders. My favorite common scar to talk about is the belly button because it makes the perfect example. We all have a belly button, none of us really remember any of the trauma associated with our belly-button's existence. But it is a bona fide Scar! The result of a gross flesh wound so grievous that the scar will be there for your entire life.
I find that I have another common scar with a lot of people....
I like Apple products.
....God damn it..... Somtimes I even like Apple. Despite the whole grossly over-sized monopolistic multinational conglomerated bullshit. (Their painful "store", however, turned me all the way off.)
It's a rather painful admission to me because, for the most part, I don't have a very good reason to like apple products. I don't need an Apple TV (no one does); I don't need a smartphone (or want one); I don't need any of their crap.
But it's all pretty.
It's pretty. That's the bottom line. Apple is damn fantastic at design and that is what floats the whole bloated company.
I have always done pretty good at ignoring cultural crap that I don't need. I don't even buy candy bars. I don't need a new computer, so I don't go out and get a new one because it'll stream movies just a little bit better. I don't need a car because (they are vile/I can walk/they are expensive/evil/crime... sorry) I live close to work and friends. But recently... I found an iPod. A little iPod touch. It was current, when I found it, pretty slick, slightly broken, and pretty much the fanciest thing I own to this day.
And now, for an inexplicable reason, I want the new one. I want to replace my cracked screen with a whole new, gen 5, unnecessary Apple thing. It's not gonna be that much better. (...but... maybe it'll be faster), it's not gonna be anything else (...well... it has a better camera... And a Flash!), it's not going to make me feel better about my self (could give you status.), why would I need it? (it fits more apps on the screen!).
I think it's Satan talking in the parenthesies.
I have always been strictly ethical in my purchases. I believe rather firmly that our consumerism is the best control we have over the corporate power structure, like voting is supposed to control democracy. And I don't like buying anything new. Recycling is so much better for the world. It requires so much less mining. But now- I wanna buy the new one! Satan tells me, it can't be that bad. Everyone is doing it.
I retort that, it can be that bad.
"No. Not really. It's just one out of a million very small things."
"But I have never been part of that million."
"It'll get you out from under Verizon! I know you don't like th--"
"Oh, sly. But keeping the old one is good enough."
"You're parents need one to get out from Verizon. Give them yours and get the new one!"
".... well... that's not NO. I can get a used old iPod for them too!"
"You could... or you could get something NEW!"
I find that I have another common scar with a lot of people....
I like Apple products.
....God damn it..... Somtimes I even like Apple. Despite the whole grossly over-sized monopolistic multinational conglomerated bullshit. (Their painful "store", however, turned me all the way off.)
It's a rather painful admission to me because, for the most part, I don't have a very good reason to like apple products. I don't need an Apple TV (no one does); I don't need a smartphone (or want one); I don't need any of their crap.
But it's all pretty.
It's pretty. That's the bottom line. Apple is damn fantastic at design and that is what floats the whole bloated company.
I have always done pretty good at ignoring cultural crap that I don't need. I don't even buy candy bars. I don't need a new computer, so I don't go out and get a new one because it'll stream movies just a little bit better. I don't need a car because (they are vile/I can walk/they are expensive/evil/crime... sorry) I live close to work and friends. But recently... I found an iPod. A little iPod touch. It was current, when I found it, pretty slick, slightly broken, and pretty much the fanciest thing I own to this day.
And now, for an inexplicable reason, I want the new one. I want to replace my cracked screen with a whole new, gen 5, unnecessary Apple thing. It's not gonna be that much better. (...but... maybe it'll be faster), it's not gonna be anything else (...well... it has a better camera... And a Flash!), it's not going to make me feel better about my self (could give you status.), why would I need it? (it fits more apps on the screen!).
I think it's Satan talking in the parenthesies.
I have always been strictly ethical in my purchases. I believe rather firmly that our consumerism is the best control we have over the corporate power structure, like voting is supposed to control democracy. And I don't like buying anything new. Recycling is so much better for the world. It requires so much less mining. But now- I wanna buy the new one! Satan tells me, it can't be that bad. Everyone is doing it.
I retort that, it can be that bad.
"No. Not really. It's just one out of a million very small things."
"But I have never been part of that million."
"It'll get you out from under Verizon! I know you don't like th--"
"Oh, sly. But keeping the old one is good enough."
"You're parents need one to get out from Verizon. Give them yours and get the new one!"
".... well... that's not NO. I can get a used old iPod for them too!"
"You could... or you could get something NEW!"
