Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.