Through mobile phones, foreign travel, divorce and change of address we're constantly being sliced thinner and thinner to the point where we no longer exist. People once would grow like a plant in the one town, traveling no more than 100 miles in their lifetime, living among their extended family and slowly becoming the person they genetically and culturally were. We are now so chopped and changed that we barely exist... The reason why America is insane, without exception, is because they have had television commercials interrupting them for longer than any other nation. They've had them since 1947.
- Bob Ellis, speaking with Richard Fider on RN, Conversations
Law
9: A principle product of the internet, sleeplessness, is unsettling,
inflaming and disordering the world. (from the Ellis Laws)
Richard Fidler: Do you use the internet, Bob?
Bob Ellis:
Yes, I do, and I'm much disordered. I'm up at three, writing. I'm often struck awake by the need for information and instead of going back to sleep, I go out in quest of it ...I would say that we as a species are getting about two hours less sleep than in the 1920s we did, and madness follows upon sleeplessness. Sleeplessness as a generality unhinges us and causes grave errors ...
Yes, I do, and I'm much disordered. I'm up at three, writing. I'm often struck awake by the need for information and instead of going back to sleep, I go out in quest of it ...I would say that we as a species are getting about two hours less sleep than in the 1920s we did, and madness follows upon sleeplessness. Sleeplessness as a generality unhinges us and causes grave errors ...
What do you wish you could have changed
I wish i had realised how good looking i was - i thought i was a grub.
Not the grub he thought he was.
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