This is beautiful. Thank you.
I think people don’t understand how important just being there for your family actually is. Sometimes it’s enough just to be reliable, stand for good and just be present. Sounds like he really knew it.
I think people don’t understand how important just being there for your family actually is. Sometimes it’s enough just to be reliable, stand for good and just be present. Sounds like he really knew it.
"" Now, I hate the movie The Big Chill, let me make that clear, and
I hope I can’t be sued for hating a movie, I hate The Big Chill,
because it’s about members of my generation, all of whom have
become swine. The only person in the movie I like is dead when
the movie starts, and they are having his funeral, and the old
preacher says something quite profound. He asks the crowd of
young yuppies, he goes "Isn’t our common life together and just
being a good man enough to sustain us anymore?" And the answer to
that is 'No, it’s not'. ""> they are only honest with themselves about this in the private setting
I'm sure you're aware of the phase "social cooling" [0] TBH I am astonished by the extreme difference between the thoughts I hear expressed in real life, and those "safe" ones people put online now. Things have completely flipped. 20 years ago we put our edgy personas online and kept IRL reserved and acceptable. Other than on 4chan etc, which are performance dramas, people have it the other way about now. So you're right; there is a "big chill" in blogging, but a counter out there in the streets and bars.
> I feel a chill coming over my desire to write and publish freely on the internet
Seriously, don't let the bastards get you down :) Don't get me wrong I love code (python too :) and I love writing about my own corner of comp.sci (DSP), but in 50 years if anyone's still here to read, which are the essays they will still care about? That thought only gives me more courage, in a way what I'm writing [1] is for "the survivors", not the audience out there now.