Blogger has reminded me that European visitors will now be warned about tracker activity on this blog and that sort of thing. Good for the Europeans for doing it. But the notice has really just reminded me that I need to start thinking again about where to relocate my writing efforts.
I value my writing space as a place to think expansively and creatively, and the ongoing silence and relative anonymity that surrounds this space - attributable to my reclusiveness among other things - is really to my liking and helps facilitate this spiritual and intellectual state for me. So it is a bit of a downer to be reminded that Google is indeed always here leering over my shoulder, and in turn over my visitors' shoulders as well, however passive and droney the data collection mechanisms are at the moment anyway.
Of course it is increasingly difficult to shield Internet activity from all sorts of prying eyes and grubby fingers. The extent of virtual proletarianization can be witnessed on Windows 10 itself, the platform on which I currently sit, in the sense that the platform forces a perpetual mode of surveillance and data collection on its users, and the concomitant forcing of updates to keep the process running smoothly - their process, not the actual smooth functioning of the goddamn operating system itself.
One doesn't own Windows 10, it owns you, and leverages your desire for connection to extort all manner of data and personal control from your person, and etc. There aren't that many more convenient alternatives either, with "convenient" being the key word. The "gotcha" resides in the additional labor required to have a truly secure and stable computer, operating system, and Internet interaction environment, which requires technical expertise, know-how, and time and energy, which we have precious little of as it is, it being tied up in paying rents to various rentiers of various forms.
Alas, this Gresham's dynamic is all the more perverse the more concentrated and monopolistic the corruption is, and these problems are pervasive wherever there is developed society, the ultimate carrier for this complex of corruption and proletarianization.
Though I am bathed in automobile pollution and all other manner of carcinogens daily, I can still avoid smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and not totally give in to oblivion in the forms I can personally resist, not that I'll claim too much of a moral high ground here though. In that way, I do still have the urge to relocate my writing efforts to a less invasive and monopolized platform, which will certainly be bought up by some mega conglomerate in good time. But it will feel good, I'm sure for everyone involved. And I've wanted to freshen the look and change up the format and make a clean start and enjoy that new car smell - in so many words.
When I can do this I'm not sure. When I have the energy and the time, it'll happen, and I'll put a nice big link to it. I've taken up physically intensive work again - this time in the form of construction work - so I also have plenty of writing material in formation, based on new experiences, which I can express in good time, when the time and energy is there, to repeat. Stay tuned.
