Expanded TWEETS:      HONKS?

Ya, Honks is good.  Conceptually consistent with the avian-audio metaphor...[ as mar-com would say]
Tweet = short    Honk = slower, longer, less cute
A bass tweet.

ok, so they're HONKS.

w/o Mar 16 09 tweet turned honk:  copywriter toronto

What the hell is going on out there?   Why the sense of accelerated chaos in general?

Cuz it’s a crystallization.

Meaning:  The density of options for wrong choices has exceeded the ability of the system to cope with its own freedoms.
Proof:  Bernie Madoff has arrived on earth.   And no one stopped him, cuz he was part of an ideal, not a system.

Madoff, the cherry on the top of the steaming banking meltdown.

Human character has not at all evolved to manage the choices our ideals demand.

And where were we, while the predators were NOT laffing all the way to the bank, cuz they WERE the bank?

Our heads were bowed like monks, praying to the digital talismans that keep every thought incomplete, every high-level observation fragmented.    Walking with heads down and earphones in, playing games... listening to toonz...   taking pix...  sending pix...   txting...   facebooking...   arsebooking...  youtubing...  youporning...

Dude, where's my atttention?

Seriously-- heads up, campers.   Or we’ll end up doing nothing all day but listening to menu options on machines that are more and more fun to touch.

Attention gets sucked up when simple tasks are "smart" -- i.e. take longer and longer, due to options for "customization" and "interaction"  -- meaning distraction. (and, increasingly, the ugly step-sisters Surveillance and Documentation.) 

I rode in some pal’s brand-new autothingie that required me to consult a thumb-thick manual, to put my window down and then up.   How many clicks on which buttons equal which functions?   Fast?   Slow?   Increments?  All the way?   Resume previously saved level of upness?  Cancel previously saved level of upness?

"Dear Window:  FUCK YOU, YOU’RE A FUCKING WINDOW;  It's not your job to suck up my mental processing on 'choices' that make you seem smarter than a window.  Learn Up, Down, and Be Quiet..  Sorry if this hurts your feelings, window."

It was a creepy, um, interface.   See, these here are what we calls yer “benefits” 'n' “features.”   Except they ain’t.   They’re time-sucking, mind-fucking DISTRACTIONS.   Madoff is pumping away and we’re tickling our chimpbrains with the window user-interface and going Woohoo, damn, Audis are smart--and bankers are walking upright!

Personally, I think we’re cruising toward point n for nadir, which would be playing with our own shit, if it had buttons or moving lights anywhere on it at all.   And it does.   Chimps don't need toys designed by lions.