So I decided to take a weekend free of electronic devices, to see if I could handle it.
I'd say I fared quite well; however, many people were upset with my lack of texting, and I recieved a bunch a text asking "what did I do wrong???" or, " eliiiiiii, why don't you answer? Do you hate me???"
Holy ballsack, people in this day and age are so dependant upon their electronics, socializing, working, reading, music, it's all through little machines. While many of these things aren't neccessarily bad, it's socializing that gets me the most.
During the SuperBowl I saw a commercial where this guy goes from one house, to a eatery, and to another house without his eyes ever leaving a screen of some sort. And while this is highly idealized, it's not far from the truth. Everyone is so dependant on their Twitter and Facebooks and Skypes that they often do anything else with their time than sit around, and socialize via Internet. (blogging is excempt, sorta :3)
Now many people spend their time on the Internet doing things that they consider interesting or funny. And while the catagory "interesting" encompasses things like the news, and wikipedia,(and blogs) many things that are considered interesting by the general public are dramatic. Everyone loves a good drama, be it a nasty breakup, a hatered between people or countries, injuries, death. If it's not happening to them (or even if it is realit'ssomethi something they can tweet or make a status about, and feel impressive. They can make jokes about it, which ties into the other half of this poorly executed rant.
This is the big one.
Humor.
Since it's very begginings the Internet has be a place of humor as well as productivity, while much of it is mediocre at best, people seek out humor to brighten days, have a good laugh by themselves or with a friend, etc etc.
Now, I believe humor is a wonderful thing, I love to laugh, although I rarely do so.
However, this love of humor, spanning from amusing videos and lolcats to bizzar pornography, has become a dependance for many. And this I believe, is part of why humor has become so neccessary in every day socializing.
People love to be entertained, and via the Internet, it's just three or so clicks away. I feel that after so much of this occurs on a regular basis, it carries over to Real Life. People want to maintain that level of entertainment, and if it's not happeneing, it's often not worth their time. Now this is most certainly not true for everyone, I know a few people who are the opposite. But I see this everyday. It feels like many people are becoming more machine-like than the iPods and ipads they so desperately cling to.
Now not only is humor a main staple of internet society, but humor has changed. I read the book "Farenheit 451" last year, and was appalled by it's descriptions of the humor of the future. People decapitating each other in various ways. And while in a stylized sense (I.e. A Tarantino film) this can be more acceptable, I realized that this was not very far from much of our humor today. We just look at it differently.
Change, it's everywhere. It's unstoppable, and often a good thing. But at times.. I'm not sure I like the direction our world is headed.
Well I believe I got close to six trains of thought going there.. I apologize if it's confusing, I don't edit my thoughts. It's my brain, deal.
In other news, the superbowl was today. I was relatively indifferent towards the two teams, but I thought they played a good game.
The halftime show was..... Unusual, in my opinion. Far to random as far as guests go, I was half expecting a resurected Tupac and like.. Billy Joel to pop out. Regardless, the LED jumpsuits were awesome.
The week was hectic as usual, but I tend to do most of my thinking whilst doing tons of things/tasks.
I feel like that's a good thing.