I write a lot on food and health issues these days, as well as doing the digital culture stuff. I wonder for example what all the new media, IT and gizmo stuff is worth if you're not feeling well.
My wife went back into hospital yesterday with a heart complaint – which is savage at 45.
Like they always say in Ireland, at least I've got my health but when you haven't you start reflecting on the more vulnerable aspects of lifestyle.
I know blogging is supposed to be a more personal form of reportage. Should I communicate my views of what counts in the new media world without mentioning the most personal things?
I guess some blogs reveal all but they tend to be young tarts sexing up the intimate parts of their lives.
Roos was diagnosed with breast cancer fifteen months ago and either the stress or the treatments are undoing her.
Does this matter in a new digital world? It colours my views of what's going on around me.
I think we have an immortalist media and IT industry, a political class that sees acute and morbid illness as a policy issue related to aging rather than integral to our way of life.
The computer and TV have tied us to chairs. What we eat is making us ill. We are a generation of sickos. That's part of what I think.
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