Comments on: Machines of Loving Grace

By: bstewart23

bstewart23 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:56:17 +0000

First off, thanks to all for the kind comments. I can’t be more flattered (and honoured) than to receive such supportive messages from thoughtful people.

And, caliman, you’re so right. The world got big, huge, over the past couple of decades, with information becoming so accessible and voluminous, yet our capacity for absorbing that information has been reduced to no more than tidbits of CNN newscrawls. This is not community, this is not communication and this is not relating to one another as human beings in full. I hope to speak to that in coming posts.

Thanks again, all y’alls.

By: caliman

caliman — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:27:57 +0000

this is the type of post i love, cuz it speaks in a language i understand. we forget too often that we are animals, albeit with the most developed brain on the planet. we are, indeed, supposed to interact and relate–not on the phone, not in the internet, not in letters, but in person. the others are cultural developments that will NEVER substitute fully for the real thing. but…they are often safer. it is harder to get hurt interacting online, but it is also harder to get loved. the scale of human interaction is not balanced 50/50 with love/hurt. there is some of both, of course, at different times. but whereas i agree that our needs for each other are innate, i suspect that our disappointment and lonliness are cultural. our cities are built to be disconnecting, and our homes and apartments foster lonliness and isolation. knowing this, it makes it a bit easier to, like life, move forward. by choosing differently. we must connect, relate, interact, love, be loved. we just don’t have to do it that way we have been doing it. we can choose.

By: DeadRobot

DeadRobot — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:54:06 +0000

I never “rage”. It’s unbecoming. I seethe until it either peeters out or gets forgotten in a warehouse of crated emotions.

I’ve always thought we were judgmental machines.

Welcome back. Thanks for the Cunningham video. I’ll have to pop in his collection next time I’m ironing laundry.

By: James

James — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:33:04 +0000

“Accept with grace that it’s never easy, never painless and never without crushing disappointment. But it’s also undeniably built into the very fabric of our bodies, of our consciousnesses.”

This post provides lots to think about. And the “Angels in America” quote is awesome.
Best,
J.

By: tuckova

tuckova — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:05:09 +0000

THIS, I think, is where you can take this site without exhausting yourself into making it a thing you hafta. You post a little bit of a taste of what you’re thinking on the little bit of a taste place, and then when you feel like explaining WHY or WHAT, you have this place to spread out the beauty carpet.

“We rage, we despair, we achingly long…” That was a beautiful sentence, the whole thing, and it clocks over 140 characters, but it deserves the space.

Man, you’re good.