No link this time.

My search for the full text of the Cummings poem brought up numerous hits, though most of them contained only the part quoted here. That part seems to show up over 600 times on the web, and obviously not all of those critique life-logging, though most seem to use it in the context of the vapidity of big data. One URL caught my eye - a link to a page on StormFront, a notorious white supremacist web site. The poem snippet shows up in a forum, but it's a single entry with no threaded comments before or after. Other postings by the same StormFront member are outrightly racist and anti-Semitic, and I can only guess that he saw this quote as an attack on technologies that he sees as robbing the white man of his true place in society. I doubt that Cummings would have been pleased with this usage, but there's not much he can do about it.



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