The stories homeless children tell each other in Miami shelters. Fascinating in a haunting way.

What's up and what's down with current education paradigms. OH GOD, MY MIND. IT IS BLOWN.

"At one end, are the guys who are just pure and simple good guys, decent people, humanly flawed perhaps but nonetheless likable *and* lovable, caring and smart, who have a lot to offer. ... At the other end are the guys who identify as "nice guys", often quite loudly and defensively, and who believe themselves to be underappreciated martyrs; usually they don't understand why they never get the girl and have at least once in their lives bitterly uttered the phrase "Nice guys finish last" usually in reference to a female who isn't dating them. It is this latter group I shall be addressing." Haaaaa, wow, this actually kind of helped me process a book I read for class whose main character was bugging me for EXACTLY THIS REASON. Now have a suspicion that Nice Guys have written a lot of insidiously misogynistic literature over the years.

Seriously, the food thing needs to stop.

Woaaaaah, mind blowing. He makes such unbelievably insightful points. I only really have three points of issue. 1) I'd argue that media not so much coming back from fantasy into reality as it is reaching for a new kind of idealized reality. That's the entire Guitar Hero concept, and it applies just as well to the organic food craze. 2) I think his model of the future is taking industry branding to an extreme level without taking into account the personal branding phenomenon (i.e. youtube culture, fandom, etc-not-for-profit-etc) 3) I was one of many people having intense 1984 creep out moments toward the end there. Disappearance of privacy =/= incentive to better behavior. It does = widespread panic and underground counterculture. Flaw in the plan!

I want to marry this boy. Awkward, but true. Also, yay for somebody of our generation representing our own reasoning for the explosion and usefulness of social media. I like that he uses both "digital native" and "selling out" as terms to explain his own life. There are lots of sociological theories and terms being bandied about by people who are twice our age trying to explain us, and while that is all well and good in an objective, categorical sense, it's so foreign to how we ourselves naturally--and in lots more cases than those sociologists would like to believe, consciously--understand our methodology. Annnnyway.

Teehee!

Man, I love shit like this. Why is that?

Exciting! True! Also, I kind of want to read that book.

We're living in exponential times.