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[bosantibe]

Hm. I've been juggling a lot of issues with my lack of attention for internet tropes and I think I've come to a conclusion about how I interact with the world. I'm feeling more and more as though I'm a cultural abstainer. By that, I mean I choose not to involve myself in the morays of cultural trends as they exist in the masses today. I don't

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[kiddo43]

What? You're not concerned with the death of the king of pop? Just kidding.

I was wondering when we were going to hear from you again.

[bosantibe]

I was concerned with that when I was about twelve and the process was actual. I hope the suffering wasn't terrible and all, but it's not going to alter my day-to-day motions.

Anyways, how've you been? Been a long time, now; seems like two years by this point. I'm kind of feeling like a slouch for having never met any of my St. Louis associates after living here for so long. Good to see you around.

[kiddo43]

I'm good. I don't think I realized that you moved to STL. I thought you lived in a different state.

Life always has new twists and turns that I always seem to be discovering but that's a good place for me to be.

[bosantibe]

No, I'm in Chicago. But still, it's not very far geographically. It's nice to ride the wave as far as life is concerned. Man, I'm too tired to be cogent. To be continued...

hmmmm

[jocosa_darby]

I recently got rid of my cell phone because I had developed the belief that it was getting in the way of me making any relationships of real value. I felt like with everyone I met, as soon as we exchanged cell numbers our relationship was reduced to texting, promised calls that never came and mis-communications. Something was lacking. Nothing tactile. It is mostly the same with internet relations. I get easily confused about where reality and fabrication begin and end. I would probably fall into your pool of "cultural abstainers".

Re: hmmmm

[bosantibe]

I would hope so. It's a strange territory, but I imagine that if it has any merit it would have to have inhabitants other than myself, crazy people and cultists. I somewhat feel that modern culture might not have gotten us as much as we need on a daily basis considering so many people (myself included, to be honest) are utterly destitute under its aegis. I never had much love of money; but the trick with love, I think, is that its opposite is an equal proportion of absolute hatred, which is a commensurate emotional investment. I can certainly claim to hate the need of money to survive at all. Time has shown me that in a society that treats artificial currency as being above actual commodities of intrinsic value, it's hard to survive without said currency.

By the way, I'd say e-mail is the same way. I have this notion about degrees of social separation via specific media as a measure of aloofness that hasn't been countered by any of my experiences in the last few years. Kudos on removing one such obstacle.
-C