messages

you're not deep
you're not an intellectual
you're not an artist
you're not a critic
you're not a poet
you just have internet access

i repeat this sentiment a lot, in different contexts. i came across it last night, and scrapper asked if i was being ironic.

the medium is the message
the post is funny, it's not wrong and yet it's not correct either. if we're going to get serious for a minute then it's a profound statement on what easy and ubiquitous access to info and digital tools does: transforms someone who is otherwise none of those things.
all of us plebs who aren't really interested in photography, for instance. give us instagram and voilà! amazing.

you can't really say that someone who's become "enlightened" (okay, a little bit of irony) through their access to vast stores of human knowledge isn't really any of those things, just like you can't say that algernon isn't smart when the therapy's working.

it's totally flowers for algernon.