Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.
Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me. Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.
I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.
