| Subject: Chat with Clark Robinson |
| From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> |
11:49 AM me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qszVH0JCAYk
Clark: watching
11:53 AM holy shit, i thought that was tube of pressurized helium in his hand, but I guess it was a bible, so he does that without chemicals?
11:55 AM time to leave america
11:57 AM me: civil war
pogroms
etc
11:59 AM Clark: i'm old, probably easier to let them take me out than relocate to new zealand, but you younger guys . . .
12:05 PM Clark: new sub-project for Project PM: survivalism for the anarchist/leftlibertarian/disillusionedsocialists/unchurched
12:07 PM me: they've already got it covered
12:08 PM Clark: is there a manual i can download?
12:09 PM me: http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Mao-Tse-tung/dp/0252068920
12:15 PM Clark: i suppose a singing inner fetus is no worse than those churches on the south side of chicago where uniformed nurses stand ready to assist parishoners who become possessed during the service
12:17 PM maybe possessed is the wrong term, thats the other guys thing i guess
12:19 PM i did not really understand what was going on, no ambulances were called
12:23 PM me: there's another Nicholas Carr review on Ordinary Gentlemen this morning
12:25 PM Clark: i saw that, he didnt have much new to add to the subject
me: oh, just read first couple sentences
12:27 PM Clark: he was skeptical of the organic changes to the brain part, and seemed to think people can switch gears between compulsive tweeting and walking in the forest, so pretty commonsensical view
12:31 PM it would be interesting to know the percentage of commentators on carr's book who actually read it, this guy, like us, did not
12:44 PM me: yeah, I've noticed a tendency towards not bothering with it
somewhat justified by the articles he's put out on the same subject
12:48 PM Clark: a more durable subject would be to look ahead to the psyche-damaging things in our future -- robots with such great personalities, interesting bodies, and sexual talents that none of us will want human friends or lovers