I recommend you watch Public Speaking, an HBO documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, that consisted of interviews and clips of the legend that is Fran Lebowitz. She has become to me what James Arthur Baldwin was to her an inspiration encouraging thought, wit and an incessant need to talk.
Here's a taste....
And a bit more...
Watching and listening to her last night really opened my eyes to the fact that as a civilization we are quickly evolving into monosyllabic texting idiots who are umbilically attached to each other through technology, but we say nothing and are nothing. Recording life on smart phones and not actually living it. In fact our phones are smart but they've lulled us into a torpid state of mental stagnation. Being intelligent has become taboo, while being famous is all that’s held sacred or worthwhile. You can be famous for nothing, for not being anything, for not being talented or intelligent in anyway. I say we round up these frauds and feed them to the lions, reboot our minds and start over with something revolutionary like a well crafted phrase.
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