Yes, Precious. Show us more cat videos. More selfies. More likes. Forget the messy civic stuff — the hard conversations, the systemic rot, the inconvenient truths. Just keep scrolling. Reacting. Feeling seen.
Bread and Circuitses is a blog about modern society, in all its complicated glory. It’s about technology, and what that technology can do for us, as well as what it can do to us.
Expect equal parts humor and insight. Expect pop culture references and the occasional Lord of the Rings quote. But beneath the Gollum voice and snarky metaphors is a real concern: What does democracy even mean when your toys are hacking your brain stem?
Over on TrustCafe, James Young was trying to make sense of the broken American system that is being twisted out of all recognizable shape by the current Republican regime. He asked simply, “How did my country get here?”
I replied with my own take on the question, and then realized that my answer fit perfectly into this new blog stream that I’ve been thinking about.
For years I’ve felt guilty about my use of online shopping. All those little packages coming from big Eastern cities, all the way across the continent, to be driven to my door by a harried little man in an overworked Honda. Surely that’s wasteful compared to me just going to the local bigbox outlet and buying it in person, right? Well, I recently had a thought that has me questioning that logic.