Comments on: Taboo! http://martyholman.com/2008/06/taboo/ Inspired by a true story Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Uneasy Rider http://martyholman.com/2008/06/taboo/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Uneasy Rider Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:16:36 +0000 http://martyholman.com/?p=311#comment-752 You really want to know what I'm thinking? Something along the lines of beauty and the beast! :) (jk). You really want to know what I’m thinking? Something along the lines of beauty and the beast! :) (jk).

]]> By: Jeff http://martyholman.com/2008/06/taboo/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Jeff Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:22:17 +0000 http://martyholman.com/?p=311#comment-749 It's kind of a fascinating little experiment. On the intellectual side: #1) I love it when people take our irrational taboos and throw them back in our faces. This clearly does that. #2) I'm not sure if it was intentional, but in addition to playing with the taboo around money, this site also kind of plays with a couple other taboos. The first is the incredible arrogance implicit in the acts of we bloggers. If we lived in some kind of super-rational Spock world, the reaction to this web site would be "Well, really, who cares?" The fact that's it's intruiging (yes, I clicked on the link.) is really a statement about us. This also all plays into societies tendency to want to quanitfy everything, put numbers and numeric values. On this artistic side, along with all this admiration, is also a little bit of caution. The issue I'm wrestling with is the fact that sometimes when we thumb our noses at something, we are actually perpetuating the whole system... does focusing us on this stuff, and generating this dialogue solve the problem or just get everybody more entrenched in their positions on it? On a practical level, I'd be a little worried about the security issues around broadcasting this information... It’s kind of a fascinating little experiment. On the intellectual side:
#1) I love it when people take our irrational taboos and throw them back in our faces. This clearly does that.
#2) I’m not sure if it was intentional, but in addition to playing with the taboo around money, this site also kind of plays with a couple other taboos. The first is the incredible arrogance implicit in the acts of we bloggers. If we lived in some kind of super-rational Spock world, the reaction to this web site would be “Well, really, who cares?” The fact that’s it’s intruiging (yes, I clicked on the link.) is really a statement about us.
This also all plays into societies tendency to want to quanitfy everything, put numbers and numeric values.

On this artistic side, along with all this admiration, is also a little bit of caution. The issue I’m wrestling with is the fact that sometimes when we thumb our noses at something, we are actually perpetuating the whole system… does focusing us on this stuff, and generating this dialogue solve the problem or just get everybody more entrenched in their positions on it?

On a practical level, I’d be a little worried about the security issues around broadcasting this information…

]]> By: Taboo! « Pastormarty’s Weblog http://martyholman.com/2008/06/taboo/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Taboo! « Pastormarty’s Weblog Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:11:15 +0000 http://martyholman.com/?p=311#comment-748 [...] I’d love to know what you’re thinking right now. Posted by pastormarty Filed in blogs Tagged: eric mill, is it christmas, MB Makara, ohnomymoney [...] [...] I’d love to know what you’re thinking right now. Posted by pastormarty Filed in blogs Tagged: eric mill, is it christmas, MB Makara, ohnomymoney [...]

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