Simplicity never had it so complicated.

I found this place http://darkcopy.com/ it says that it is:

"a simple, full-screen text editor for distraction free writing.

DarkCopy is for anyone who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, and wants to increase productivity by focusing only on writing. It was created as a free, web-based clone of WriteRoom.

Go ahead and try it! Simply start typing and toggle to full-screen editing mode to clear your mind."

So I used it. Slightly stream of consciousness except I'm not a drug-addled hippy and I knocked out a rubbish conclusion in around two minutes. I could have cleaned that whole sentence up by simply saying I hadn't planned on anything that was typed down but here it is anyway.


Hi how are you doing?

It's dead simple what I'm trying to ignore. And it isn't distractions. Distractions are merely a weakness in attention and are not the fault of the distractions but a symptom of an inattentive mind.

My mind is afflicted by such things. But this is because I think hard. This has nothing to do with the simplicity of the typewriter. It has no bearing on my ability to articulate what I'm trying to communicate at all. It's a means to an end and stuff such as this makes me believe we have given up on bettering ourselves. Honing our mind to a point sharper than any steel.

Modernity and all its gadgetry has better uses. Spell check for example. This isn't something that necessarily says you cannot spell or structure your sentences properly. But something that brings order to the chaos we shout down into our fingers and onto a screen. In the pursuit of our betterment we rush our selves. In the expediency to bring comment we forget our structure and allow a thought to fly out unstructured and therein potentially incomprehensible.

If this is the case, and none of this is what I am trying to ignore then what is it? It is the things that slow us down. A hunt for progress decries all that slows it down as much as all that slows down progress decries the speed at which it appears to go.

Progression is met with suspicion by tradition. And tradition is met with a continuum of feeling from caution and playful irreverence to downright revulsion and opposition.

I won't be the first to have said any of that. And that is fine. Everybody wants to be first. Ability to do something is not a race to the finish line. It is the quality at which we cross the finish line that is most important. And many understand that. Especially those who hold with the most extremes of tradition and progression. They agree it is quality we need to finish with but quality in exactly what is where they disagree. It might be morality, it might be ability or it may even be presence of mind lacking entirely either of those things.

But worst comes to worst, we always know that at least there's nudity.