How is it that a Macworld keynote webcast can move a grown man to tears? The ever talented Momus dissects his emotions in wired's article, Why Apple Makes Me Cry. His musings on why so many of us gravitate toward Mac products certainly resonate with me...
I'm a very modern person. I don't have any affiliations to traditional religion, and I don't really feel any national loyalties. I was born in the U.K., but I've lived in cities like London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Berlin. It's become clear that if I do have a religion, it's a humanist one--a profound reverence for human creativity, for example. And if I do have something like a consistent homeland, it might as well be the Mac OS. Because wherever I am physically, that's where I spend most of my time.