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In the internet age, content curation is just as important as content creation.



There are already multiple lifetimes worth of content available online.



Billions of man-hours poured into the creation of online content in the last decade alone.



Much of it intended for wide public consumption, but more of it,



statistically even most of it, meant for private viewing,



or else viewing by a small number of people.



As a result, some of the most interesting content available



is hyper-specific, hyper-specialized, or just



entirely inscrutable, because the common cultural basis



through which we decode this content simply isn't there.



Paradoxically, the internet's most commonly-shared content:



sex, food, and animals, is its least interesting because



of its universality. It is devoid of any



perspective or meaning, it does not even manage to



capture an experience, so controlled and artificial



that it becomes only a totemic representation of



a real experience, purely symbolic and inviting



any representation the viewer will project onto it.



This is why pornography is at the same time both



completely devoid of eroticism and incredibly popular.



It is a tabula rasa onto which the viewer may place



any fantasy, any desire, any thought. It never



challenges because it is devoid of anyone other



than the viewer. It is the ultimate masturbatory experience.



This is why pornography continues to become



more and more standardized. The same camera angles,



lighting, and so forth in every instance. This removes



any directorial perspective, and even the performers



perform the same acts in each instance, the same way,



with the same timing in all pornography.



It is identical not by practice but by purpose,



a ritualized representation of the idea of sex.



This same pornographic approach is not just taken



in depicting sex, but in every aspect of our lives.



It is a rejection of perspective, which makes the internet



an isolated and isolating place, a solitary experience



built on the ritualization of a symbolic collective



experience, protected from the challenges of real



human interaction. It is purely masturbatory.



It is pornography on a societal scale.



It is the transformation of all human experience



into pornography. Thus the importance of



content curation. True, genuine experiences are



captured (insofar as that is possible) amongst



the data available on the internet. It is



the responsibility of internet users to find and



preserve unique content.



Thus this thread.

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is that principal mcvicker's face?

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City of Glompton posted:



(they're sea squirts, and they're dead)

:(

City of Glompton


you're right

here's some that are alive, much nicer:


thank you PSP for the beautiful spring sig

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This woman looks a lot like Vanessa Bayer from SNL.

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:nws: http://i.imgur.com/5AkdO.jpg :nws:

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:nws: http://i.imgur.com/kKQBX.jpg :nws:

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nvm no cake

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FactsAreUseless

I love this.

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Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


here is an interesting picture

misty mountaintop

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That dick looks like a chair.

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