I wrote that as a note in a draft of a story.<\/p>\n
The act of shoplifting is cold and distant, because the core concept is the idea that things are taken<\/i> away from a mysterious being. The being that owns the shop. and that being even if it’s a real family isn’t visible. It’s distant from the things that stock shelves and the people that run the store. Buying something, stealing something isn’t as visibly wrong as mugging someone.<\/p>\n
So what else is? Is anything that is done through the Internet that cold and distant? The idea of an online dating service which at its core could be seen a meat market. Or just the idea of a man absent from a scene where the only interaction is through a machine. Isn’t that cold and distant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wrote that as a note in a draft of a story. The act of shoplifting is cold and distant, because the core concept is the idea that things are taken away from a mysterious being. The being that owns … Continue reading