"It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and, sad-making."
J.D. Salinger (via trua)
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#j.d. salinger
#life
(Source: decrepito, via iamonlyamaid)
Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. →
#new york times
#jonathan franzen
#technology
#love
#life
#this is amazing
“To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
Let me suggest, finally, that the world of techno-consumerism is therefore troubled by real love, and that it has no choice but to trouble love in turn.”
