Sunday, November 23, 2003
(5:01 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Get off my back
You know how sometimes you'll meet someone for the first time, and during the course of the conversation, some peripheral interest of yours will come up, and from then on, that's all the person will want to talk about? Or how sometimes people will try to make a "memory" out of a marginal event that you don't actually care about, or try to make some kind of inside joke with you, because they're pathetic people who are incapable of making any kind of real connection with people and instead latch onto the first, stupid, superficial thing they can find?
I think Amazon.com is like that in a lot of ways. I've been trying to borrow a copy of Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison, but since no one has it, I just broke down and bought it off Amazon. Now I know that for the next three months, whenever I go to Amazon, everything is going to be Bonhoeffer.
