🔘 Gaping Void

March 16, 2018

Another @gapingvoid image that reminds me of micro.blog - in fact it might even be an image created for @macgenie based on the first micro podcast she did.

More Gaping Void

March 15, 2018

Even if I got one of these I still couldn’t draw like @gapingvoid … it’s about the ideas, not the tools.

March 8, 2018

This just in from @gapingvoid .. and I thought - you know - this is micro.blog. Shouldn’t we be asking hugh to get on board?

September 11, 2017

And Neither Are People

Do you remember The Prisoner?

If you are old enough and you were living in the UK in the 60s, I am sure the answer is a resounding, "Yes!"

I am well aware the TV series was also shown in Canada and the US, but I think it's one of those peculiarly English productions that didn't translate too well. For those of you not old enough (most of you I am guessing), this is a key line from the show that always struck me: "I am not a number—I am a free man!"

Prescient, when you realize, to quote Wikipedia that ...

a major theme of the series is individualism, as represented by Number Six, versus collectivism, as represented by Number Two.... McGoohan [the co-creator of the show], stated that the series aimed to demonstrate a balance between the two points.

Now if that is not a "discussion for our times," I'm not sure what is! And as you can see, this debate has been occupying me for some time. Then, along comes Gaping Void to point out something similar.

innovation is not a number