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beeseverywhen · 1 year

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Finally sent the email (only took me a month)

Emails really offer a snapshot of all that is wrong with modern life.

In history books I expect there to be a paragraph at the end of our chapter explaining 'why were they like that' and its just a little summary saying 'ok so they had these things called emails'

#to be clear i don't think it's emails themselves that fucked us #emails are not a bad idea! many things are made easier by the existence of emails #HOWEVER #while a harmless concept i think that emails were themselves very vulnerable to the rot that runs through our society #its about the constant advertising. its about having to wade through it to find what's important.#it's about my government communicating with me in the same place as someone trying to sell me a new hat & also the person trying to scam me #it's about how the hat man is only there to sell me hats because i welcomed him in for a 10% discount.#i sold 24/7 access to myself for a convenience! for nothing! and it seemed reasonable at the time. it will seem reasonable next time #where do i wade through bureaucracy more often than my inbox???#and then... its that emails are there all of the time. they didn't use to be. we made them so. they didn't have to be.#every day i walk about society with a pocket full of letters. their constant weight only serves to increase the time it takes you to reply?#with an email there is no urgency there is all the urgency #(we've all worked with someone who marks everything as urgent. no Andrew. this isn't urgent & you didnt need to send it to the whole team)#its about a workload which nobody will ever admit is unmanageable and yet which you are never supposed to see an end of #it's about the intimate distance. the personal remoteness of it all #it's about the world being filled with beauty but none of that reaching emails. emails serve to wash out the joy.#a good thing in an email is not as good as the same thing out of an email #nothing is real #the number of unread messages means nothing here. none of it means anything. it's all washed out

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