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it's almost midnight, so here's an entry for THE Midnight

~tffb

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I dunno. I've been doing a lot of "click around and find amusing links" in gemini, gopher, and web spaces of late, and what I feel I mostly found (or is it "interpreted as having found"?) was a sort of profound loneliness to which links give a dubious sense of connectedness, but most of the content (nobody being more guilty of what I'm about to say than yours-somewhat-truly..) is what Beatle George was getting at in his glorious

"I Me Mine".

Not that such content can't be interesting, for it most certainly often is. But eventually the aforementioned loneliness became an invisible hashtag of sorts, such that one of the first things coming to mind when encountering another such instantiation is much closer to "Oh, Jesus... here we go again... <leverage the "back" keyboard shortcut>" than "Oh, wow, what an interesting person describing fascinating things from their perspective!"

Maybe it's just (I) me (mine)? :-) But I'll take comments against inline quoted content over links any day. I mean, not that they're necessarily accomplishing the same thing. I'm just saying I'd rather witness - and possibly become involved in - interaction than jump from one isolation offering to another.

Perhaps hyper-jaded song spoof lyrics (of the aforementioned) drive $HOME the point?

         all through the web
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
            all gem-i-ni
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine

now they're frightened of quoting it
        nobody's grokking it
  posting what's wrong all the time
         all through go-pher
              I me mine

            I me me mine
            I me me mine
            I me me mine
            I me me mine

           all I can read
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
         seems mostly screed
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine

  no one's frightened of braying it
       here's a big tray of it
crowing 'bout themselves all the time
      each pro-to-col, I me mine

            I me me mine
            I me me mine
            I me me mine
            I me me mine

            all a veneer
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
          even those snears
   I me mine, I me mine, I me mine

  no one's frightened of braying it
       here's a big tray of it
crowing 'bout themselves all the time

       all through your clicks
              I me mine