Speaker 1: Creativity 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 fourteenth, twenty
twenty four. 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 when
the kindle 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 at work. Steven
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 platform, 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 bent, 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 MARYL. And that's what I was writing while the
sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.