A Dentist Is Only Half The Doctor

The Internet Takes A Lot Of The Anxiety Of Life Away. It's A Kind Of Deity. You're Never Lonely. You're Always Distracted. If You Spend Enough Time On It, There's Not Really That Nagging Sensation Of Existential Despair; It Erases It Very Effectively. And It's Monolithic. And Thanks To It, We've Got The Ways To Linger There After Death - Your Blog Exists Afterwards, Your E-mail Exists Afterwards.

Why Shouldn't It Be That Way For The Rest Of Us? Why Not Just Go With It? Just Walk The Dog And Send The Tweets And Eat The Scones And Play With The Hamsters And Ride The Bicycles And Watch The Sunsets And Stream The Movies And Never Worry About Any Of It? I Didn't Know It Could Be That Easy. I Didn't Know That Until Just Now. That Sounds Good To Me.

I Don't Actually Think Of The Internet As The Bad Guy. I Think Of The Internet As Doing A Hell Of A Lot Of Wonderful, Fascinating, Interesting Things. A Lot Of Information That's Exchanged On The Internet Is Extremely Useful, And Every Once In A While It Percolates Up To Knowledge. Wisdom Is Far Harder To Come By.

If You Can Get By With Quotes From The Godfather And Nothing You Say Matters, That's Pretty Bleak, Don't You Think? Don't We Want What We Say To Matter?

I Know What To Do With My Life. I Just Don't Know What To Do With This One Night.