Conspire: c.1300, from O.Fr. conspirer, from L. conspirare "to agree, unite, plot," lit. "to breathe together," from com- "together" + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit). Conspiracy is from 1386; conspiracy theory is from 1909.
December 13, 2003
Right. So human contact. I find it odd that often when I feel lonely or isolated, rather than getting out of this little cage I call home, I check the blog circuit to see if anyone has posted. I don't actually go out into the real world, where I can engage in real interaction with real human beings. No. I sit at my computer and wait for someone hundreds of kilometres away, who could, for all I know, be a randomly generated AI program, to post some empty words on an empty website that I can read on my empty monitor with my empty mind. Long and short, when did I learn to mistake electronic communication for human interaction?