More Wisdom from Tom (Tom Waits holds forth)

THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD

 

Tom Waits: Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody “What’s the story on that?” and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That’s fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

I have no computer. It's in the pool with the TV and the golf balls. The cyber world creates the illusion of communication. You put the word cyber in front of something and it's like "new and improved". It's part of the advertising virus. Cyber chats, cyber love affairs, cyber discoveries. It's a way of selling us things that are already available. I'm suspicious of it.

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