Sharp as Teeth and Stars

jockohomo:

Will Brand writes: “Rule 34 states that if you can imagine it, there is porn of it. Most jokes have already been made, by people with more Twitter followers than you, and for every subject from Cezanne to C-sections there’s somebody out there who knows more than you ever could, and who’s happy to lord it over you in a forum thread. So what’s the point? In a 2008 interview with Gene McHugh, Internet spiritualist/net artist Kevin Bewersdorf got real: ‘Having your own website is like building an unnecessary shrine to yourself. We can try to deny this by convincing ourselves that what we are doing is somehow a selfless gift, but the web has not asked us for these gifts. The web would go on without us’….There’s yet another edge to the internet’s futility, though: our own complicity. If we share without purpose, we also ignore each other’s sharing on a vast scale.”