Writing Letters

[Anonymous No.19012334]

How do we revive letter writing?

[Anonymous No.19012342]

Wait for the communication satellites to fall out of orbit, and cut the wires to the internet.

[Anonymous No.19012395]

>>19012342
But that won't happen for decades, in all likelihood.

[Anonymous No.19012439]

>>19012395
Only if we don't take action against it

[Anonymous No.19012446]

>>19012395
>>19012439
Read Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How and Pentti Linkolas Can Life Prevail?

[Anonymous No.19012477]

>>19012439
>>19012446
This will never happen. Critiques of technology are supremely unpopular, people enjoy gadgets too much for them to just give them up. And thus, the literary letter is forever dead. Sad!

[Anonymous No.19012496]

>>19012334
I would love to start a circle kind of like Lovecraft had with some of the fellows here, but a.) that requires giving my address to out to anons, and b.) there is no guaranteed that k will receive letters back

[Anonymous No.19012501]

>>19012496
You should participate in the secret s/a/nta, anon. It is cute and fun

[Anonymous No.19012506]

>>19012334
Publish your electronic mail correspondence.

[Anonymous No.19012509]

>>19012501
>cute and fun

[Anonymous No.19012512]

>>19012509
We're all losers here, anon

[Anonymous No.19012518]

>>19012395

[Anonymous No.19012523]

>>19012501
A /lit/ secret santa would be pretty fun, though I wonder if it would just be the same 50 books being circulated.

[Anonymous No.19012526]

>>19012496
OP here, I've thought about this before but your first point does indeed make it impossible.
If only there was a system in place that allowed people to do this anonymously.
>>19012506
Electronic mail isn't the same. There's no delivery involved and as a result you can (and often will) write very short messages, which is basically just chatting. A letter has to be long, in a sense, because it'll take a few days to be delivered.

[Anonymous No.19012548]

>>19012501
>>19012523
Sounds like a cute and fun way of having mail bombs delivered to your house

[Anonymous No.19012552]

>>19012512
Imagine wanting to do something "cute". I simply cannot, because I am not a faggot, and there is nothing fun about gift exchange.

[Anonymous No.19012668]

>>19012477
Don't be a faggot.

[Anonymous No.19012687]

>>19012548
It's what uncle ted would've wanted

[Anonymous No.19013102]

>>19012334
Let it go.
I tried this app which simulated the amount of time taken to deliver to places around the world, with the intention that given the extra time people would put more effort into their letters.
What would happen is I would make a long effort post, and in return they would all reply 'haha thats cool so what r ur hobbies?' or if they were the first person to contact me it would be 'hey hows it going.'
The world is dead. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.19013473]

>>19013102
fuck me that hits hard. i remember that even as a 7 or 8 year old in school we were taught how to write letters (ie properly address the recipient, where to place the stamp along with what sort of content you would include in your letter.) back then it would just be a "fake letter" to santa or whoever, full of lots of basic questions so that they could have lots to write you back about. but still, i'm a zoomer and yet i feel that as i got older in school, that once fundamental skill older generations were forced to learn was somehow corrupted as we instead learnt digital skills like working in electronic mail, slideshows and online word documents. my point being that although nowadays it seems as if the world has almost entirely abandoned what was once such an integral part of society, there is still hope. i did use some of skills i was taught in school (albeit i was around 10 and haven't written a proper letter since) to write to my grandparents. we only sent a few letters back and forth but it still meant the world to me as a young kid opening up an envelope and seeing what the other person had to say. you can still write letters in this day and age. the postal service still operates. you could write to retirement villages (they would certainly reply and know how to properly converse in letter format) or find a pen pal (perhaps even a foreign one,) forming the beginning of a meaningful relationship with a stranger that simply cannot established with a text or email. so pick up a pen, paper, stamp and envelope and get writing.