From: mike wilson
---- Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Twitter seems to me to be instant messaging, without the
> > > > > > instant, archived to preserve the banality for posterity.
> > > > >
> > > > > Someday that Twitter archive could be as fascinating and
> > > > important as
> > > > > the Vindolanda letters.
> > > >
> > > > It will need to be soaked in a cess pit for about 2000
> > years, first.
> > >
> > > Welcome to the internet.
> >
> > Yes but 2000 years? We'll have much more important things to
> > spend our electricity on long before then.
> >
>
> The Vindolanda letters are the Twitterus of the day. "Send more socks, it's
> cold up here. Signed, Biggus Dickus"; "Come to my party. Signed, The CO's
> Wife". If that's not banality I don't know what is. And yet, that's what
> we're interested in. Put on an exhibition about Virgil's Aeneid and you
> could probably count the audience on one hand, but the British people,
> including me, voted the Vindolanda letters the most interesting and
> important historical artifacts we have. That's what Twitter is, too.
But those tweets are exceedingly rare. Like the "there's nobody down
here but us wineskins" type graffiti from Pompei, they are
interesting because they show how banal and otherwise human empire
makers actually are. The accumulated effluvia of the internet,
mostly by and from people whose most important decision is what to
put on their toast this morning, pales into insignificance.
You don't have to worry about what to put on your toast in the morning
if you stay in bed until noon.
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