http://jontillman.com/2008/05/04/me-here-now/ part of the problem since 1976 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://jontillman.com/2008/05/04/me-here-now/#comment-5601 JONTILLMAN.COM » Me, The Brand Wed, 07 May 2008 12:35:08 +0000 http://jontillman.com/?p=1958#comment-5601 [...] To help us maintain our fantasy world of individualistic isolated commercial success, we pretend to have relationships with people we do not know, people who do not even exist. We have relationships with other peoples carefully crafted personal marketing messages. We develop emotional connections with the marketing messages (blogs) or commercial output (oh, I meant to say ‘lovingly handcrafted art’ but then I threw up a little in my mouth) of complete strangers and fancy ourselves on the cutting edge of a glorious return to an idyllic cottage-industry past starring us, now, here. [...] [...] To help us maintain our fantasy world of individualistic isolated commercial success, we pretend to have relationships with people we do not know, people who do not even exist. We have relationships with other peoples carefully crafted personal marketing messages. We develop emotional connections with the marketing messages (blogs) or commercial output (oh, I meant to say ‘lovingly handcrafted art’ but then I threw up a little in my mouth) of complete strangers and fancy ourselves on the cutting edge of a glorious return to an idyllic cottage-industry past starring us, now, here. [...]

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