Semper amabam.

Semper amabam. Etiamsi tu nunquam scies cordem meum habere, id cole.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it

On the one hand I feel myself drawn to Hume's sensitivity of taste and a desire to know the value of good company. On the other, I only wish that someone could teach me again the simple childhood innocence which indiscriminately pronounces all which it sees to be good and beautiful. A bright world of gaudy colours and personalities, all interweaving to form the kaleidoscope of desires and motivations that makes us human. Each day, I discover more and more what it is that I like and am like; yet each day I betray further and further the founding principles on which my world is built. Should humanity embrace all the good, however miniscule, which resides in everybody and everything. Or should we instead learn to ciphon out the "good" from the bad, reject what is impure and aim towards ultimate good.

Dictionary.com/commerce

Dictionary.com/commerce

com·merce n.
1. The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations. See Synonyms at business.
2. Intellectual exchange or social interaction.
3. Sexual intercourse.

The first is nice and straightforward.
The second complicates my argument.
The third... "what the"

The Redefinition of Presence

What is present? Traditional notions of presence entail proximity and accessibility and yet the electronic world is not governed by physical space. What is existent is yet not accessible. Nothing is spatially proximate, nor is there physical proximity. The world of hypertext is reduced to hyperlinks, so that all existence is virtual. "Electronic texts have no body, only mind." (Florian Brody "The Medium is the memory" in The Digital Dialectic)

So what is the blog? The printing press brought the audiences of the world to the author's fingertips. Suddenly there was a medium to reach the masses and so the term "reading public" was coined. The world wide web brings the authors of the world to the reader's fingertips, and the Glutenberg Revolution is complete. Every text, whose author has been dead at least 20 years, is available digitally. The entire corpus of Old English, Middle English and Classical Latin and Greek texts are available with a click.

The printing press gave birth to Libraries but information is still not available. O Brave New World saturated with knowledge. The public world may resemble Orwell's fear of surveillence, but the digital world has realised the overload of information. Are google's sidebar ads and the relentless pop-ups any less sinister than brainwashing whispers in our sleep?