7even11eleven-blog - This Is Me For Now

Yeah, I have a pretty lousy memory. It’s true.

this is my favourite vine tbh

I'm disgusted.

Literal Nazis are terrorizing Charlottesville right now. I wish I could say that I was shocked. I wish that I could say this isn’t the America I know. I wish more than anything that this wasn’t happening.

This isn’t about “listening to other people’s opinions” and “being open minded.” Hating other peope, hurting other people, KILLING other people is not an acceptable “opinion,” and if you have this opinion, all of your other opinions become tainted by that mindset and they cannot be listened to. The minute we try to “hear out” nazis is the minute shit like this starts to happen.

THIS IS TERRORISIM, AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

To my black and

Jewish friends and followers, I am deeply sorry for this. I hope that you are safe. I can’t imagine how difficult this must be for you.

We often look back at the early adopters of now-ubiquitous technologies and think: wow, we sure were silly to be so skeptical of something we now couldn’t live without.

It’s tempting to look around at today’s emerging technologies and wonder: what soon-to-be-indispensable conveniences will we ourselves be mocked for dismissing as impractical fads?

Rather than looking to the future, however, I often find myself peering further into the past, applying the question to technologies that are so omnipresent it doesn’t usually occur to us that there must have been early adopters at all.

Like, what must it have been like to be one of the first people to wear hats?  What did the early-adopter glitches for the concept of putting things on your head look like?

Daughters of the Dust dir. Julie Dash (1991)

Road trip adventure preparation!