Arroe Unplugged Page One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Three The Choice

0:00Creativity is an addiction. Unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity. Totally uncut because we all make mistakes. So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Wow, I don't know what to say. Because what we say can easily be taken away. It seems like that's where we're walking these days. It's been growing bigger and bigger for the past five to ten years. What you do, what you say, how you react. It's being watched. It's being listened to. It's being judged. But where does it stop? And when it stops, what's next? What's new? What will happen if suddenly what you do do is that thing that you can't do. It's now a thing of the past. Hey, it's arrow. This is the choice. This is what I was writing while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day. Today we're reading from March 14, 2024. Finding yourself on a page in a world of smartphone screens and digital notebooks. I was once that person who thought bookstores would take a huge hit

1:00when the candle and nook were first brought into the life and style of this human always trying to keep up with the Joneses. Another part of the evolution is this thing called book talk. Pretty much like Audible. Listening to the books while driving or while you're in work. Stephen Ferdick's new book, Do the New You, is my first attempt at catching up with these Joneses. I was with novelist Lucinda Barry the other day and we talked openly about how important book talk is for her writing career and we've bumped into a serious problem. Book talk is connected to TikTok, which is facing a huge test. The government wants to ban the digital app because they believe it helps the Chinese spy on us. We've been here before. There are millions of TikTok users utilizing this app by making it a tool to put their music on it, to put their art on it, to do things with it. You can't help but ask, what's next? Can digital technology come up with a multi-layered

2:01platform, a popular one at that and serve these creative people? Or are these the opening steps of censorship in America? Where do you find yourself? What are you doing today that has been reshaped, tossed into a completely different direction and is so far away from who you wanted to become because other people redesigned you and are we in a place like that again where people are going to try to decide for you and I don't know about you but I've got enough people in my life now that are always going I don't know what to do what do you want to do I don't know I don't know we are so trained to just sit back and go I don't know what do you want to do I don't know I really don't I'm Arrow and that's when I was writing while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day