Voidtools Everything

Posted by 22111
Apr 9, 2022 at 05:39 PM

(The > They above, sorry.) Waiving French from the above, their “récréation” is more like “recharging of the batteries”; German’s reputation of being the more precise language of’em’all is justified.

And in our context here, English / French “recreation”, very far from being some additional, interpretional “creation” of its own, is far more utter consumption, most of the time together with appropriation without any additional thought, and even Twitter got aware of this, hopefully, and to combat the most blatant excesses, presumably, they then doubled their initial 144-chars limit per “message”, according to what I read somewhere… or then, they possibly just wanted to make more room for (direct, and indirect) citations, dumb replication?

Anyway, I adore that double-entendre in the “message” term… and you know what they say about the decisiveness of “messages” endless repetition, whatever their content; Twitter knows, at any rate.

But at the end of the day, it should be that modern mix of your (always read: Jane’s) thinking you create when in fact you consume (ideas and all) that makes the irrefutable-for-most attraction of those new offerings of outsourcing your being, most of the time…

Having made possible by that revolution indeed which made that now, consumption doesn’t consume-up anymore, as had been the rule though generations before, with very few exceptions (reading, viewing plays, listening to music… then Gaumont invented the movies…) to that ancient rule…

and with that most blatant exception indeed to that rule ever, “church going” or any other form of partaking in cult, and listening to what they told you there, reading, theatre and so on not really being for the masses in those times.

And today, we’re simply back to then, to archaic times - you see, the implications of “iPhone’s cult” are much wider than you (always read: Jane, again) probably will have suspected - but this time for almost all of us - and even reading (so-called “longer” texts that is, and of any quality) is in - permit the pun - vigorous retreat.

In other words, it’s not the masses who adopted “elites’” behaviors and predilections, it’s the other round, not full-time yet I admit though, but then, look at the ballot to more precisely ascertain the overall situation, beyond pure wishful thinking.

In the meanwhile, the French had a wonderful term for that, then much more time-limited phenomenon: s’encanailler…

whilst that term, too, has become obsolete by the sheer facts of today. To infer that, “today, canaille’s everywhere” would a little bit harsh in its wording, but then, what you typically find in iPhone’s storage (cloud or in-phone), may make you rethink some premature, idealistic presumptions.

And for most of the rest, they will have erased it in time: e.g. European Union and other top politicians, anyone? Which reminds me of the fact that those centuries ago I’ve evoked above, the elites had counted very few in numbers, just as it’s the trend now again.

In-between, that had been child-play, in so-called “developed societies”, and to mask that, real revolution while it goes, they info us now, and no, I don’t wanna say inform, I say info, from “to info”: they pour the same crap all over the masses as they did then, they just empower us now to juggle around it at will, provided it’s the crap coming from them, and you (i.e. Jane’s) iPhone and all make the endless replication of their ancient, then much more difficult to organize, cult “services”.

An’yeah, I adore the double-entendre of that now ubiquitous, muck “service” term - so much for “software / info / whatever crap as a service”, with or without automatic “adaptation” (read: rise) of your subscriptions.

In the ancient times, servants were (ok, lousily, most of the time, but) paid; now they pay for being allowed to valet, and that’s even (euphemism:) some otherwise quite smart people among them. (icon:) Shrug.