Two possibly big ideas I'm toying with

Over the months of a stick-in-the-mud summer--it wasn’t much like a summer and so far fall has been all rain, rain go away come again another day--I have done little, but I have done some thinking. I rarely complete thoughts and ideas, and this is yet again another piece of evidence to my oh look there’s a new shiny object

• A world without borders, the freedom to roam/Rome

(I have blogged about this in one of my past blogs.)

--if such a place existed, would it just be an Orwellian dystopia?

--or am I not a settler at heart (despite how adept I am at sitting on my butt), not one inclined to work 9-5 (or ever), not one to raise a nuclear family (who is these days?)--instead my mind is better enriched through human interaction and a world wide collection of knowledge and friends (?)

(how can I speak of experience when I’m not experiencing?)

(why do I feel the urge to speak/share/brag about personal experiences? it surely can’t be purely educational)

• The Dead Generation

The label “Dead Generation” is perhaps ironic because our numbers are growing exponentially--within the realm of the living. And, no, this is not another spin-off of vampire books or zombie movies. Perhaps I am attempting to label something--labeling, so dangerous but I still do it. Or maybe I desire to be the Gertrude Stein of the 21st century. The “Dead Generation” is arising out of the muddled masses that are concealed by screen names and avatars, living an unexistence, a duality (or more) of existences, contradictions, nothingnesses, and uncertainties pertaining to our identity. Be it identity theft or just sitting behind a computer talking faceless to faceless with other unentities has killed something that was once living.

Do I want to shun/slam the Information Age? (I doubt it.) Or do I want to declare it an age of misinformation/disinformation? (I think it’s already been done countless times.) I’d hardly feel comfortable with either. (So why did I just type that?) In fact this is why the “Dead Generation” is just an idea I’ve been toying with. And, again, perhaps ironically, this idea is suffering in a state of unexistence.

(It’s an example of how to be unclear at being clever?)

(like that, too?)

(and that)