Incent my writing through random harvesting

I would like to write about a lot of truly significant things...but I'm too tired. Instead, I'll cull little pieces from what I've stored up in my wiki or Ecco file

Tucked
Behind the Home Page, a Call to Worship
:

    Mr. Reese and his Web site, www.tothenextlevel.org, embody an
    increasingly popular strategy for evangelism in the Internet age. In
    the segmented realms of the Web, said Tony Whitaker, editor of a guide
    for online evangelists, sites that use overtly Christian material will
    reach only people who are already Christians, while everyone else can
    click by. Unlike Christian radio or television, the new medium calls
    not for powerful religious symbolism or rhetoric but for the absence of
    them, he said.

In culling through my pile of old issues of The New Yorker, I came
across David Denby's review
of Matrix Revolutions
. The ending the essay made me ponder my own misconstructed
sense of helplessness, about which Tokyo
Story
actually has a lot to say:

    In the first movie, the lifelessness of the humans’ speech made one
    doubt that humanity was actually worth fighting for. But if one ignores
    the wilder speculative meanings that have been drawn from the series
    (we are all wired together in a simulated reality), there remains
    something halfway palpable in these movies: in a period in which
    gigantic corporations and entire governments devote themselves to
    promoting made-up realities, people may genuinely wonder what world
    they are living in. The fact that so many intellectuals in particular
    found “The Matrix” fascinating suggests how impotent they feel to
    change anything around them. Movie critics, however, are fascinated by
    the aesthetic life or death in the object right before their eyes, and
    they tend to fight one machine or pod at a time rather than recast
    their helplessness as a theory of subjection. It’s better, perhaps, to
    win or lose small battles than to never start fighting at all.

This
21st-Century Japan, More Contented Than Driven
:

    China, long the center of Asia, fell under foreign domination in
    the last century and a half. Japan, long content in its relative
    isolation or as a tributary nation to China, went out into the world,
    competing against the West and dominating Asia.

    But China never lost its sense of being a great power and appears comfortable now in reassuming its traditional role in Asia.

I had been using the word incentivize. Recently, I heard someone use the word
incent. Which one to use? Perhaps neither
to avoid
jargon
.

One thought on “Incent my writing through random harvesting

  1. Raymond!! Remember me, Cesar Gomez, from GCF days back in ’94-’96?? I just wanted to write to let you know that I stumbled onto your blog and I love what you’ve created here. Its cracking, man! Drop me a quick note if you have a chance. I’ve never forgotten your kindness, graciousness, and intellect from when I knew you in my Berkeley days, and I am very glad to know that you are alive, kicking, and still as searching a person as I have ever known.
    Take care always, and I will be sure to be checking in periodically on your blog based musings.

    –Cesar Gomez

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