Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 4:53 PM by Gene

I know we're supposed to smile at this press release, but here is the very definition of GET A LIFE! Someone is willing to deny himself a social life -- no, a NORMAL life -- so he can be the KING of the VIDEOGAMERS. And there are many someones willing to turn themselves into electronic zombies for no better reason than the alleged thrill of the chase. This is what we're coming to -- and I very much include bloggers in this: we spend so much damned time in front of our boxes we don't know the world outside, or any world other than the shrivelled-up fantasies in our brains. If I could somehow sell my writing I'd cease with this blog post haste; and even then I don't know that it would stop my Web obsession. I've quoted him before, I'll quote him again: Thoreau said man is becoming the tool of his tools, and while that wasn't true in the 1840s, when the most advanced technology was the steam locomotive and the telegraph, it's true now. With geniuses like this it will scarcely matter when we become half-man, half-machine; we'll have passed incontrovertibly beyond shame, or redemption.