Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of human connections over mere content or entertainment.
Cory Doctorow's quote highlights the notion that meaningful relationships are far more valuable than the content we consume, such as movies. In a hypothetical scenario, choosing movies over friends in isolation would signify a lack of social connection, shedding light on how conversations and interactions define our experiences and fulfillment more than passive consumption of media.
In practice
This quote could be used in a social media post about the value of friendships.
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
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