Are things like Facebook, twitter, and hell, even the internet, simply cultural fads? Or are they a new way of life?
If they are a new way of life, I think my chances of making it as a human being are severely diminished. I can't get behind them in ways that make me feel good about my life. Instead, when I look at Facebook and check my email, I actually feel more depressed and angry than I did before I started. I can't help but think about the world before the information superhighway (is that what it's called? What do people call it these days?) The days before, what, You Tube? Kanye West?
Time Magazine - who enervate me every time they publish something by Joel Stein - have always been my barometer to measure that which is simply passing, fleeting, fashionable, and that which is historically meaningful. They are supposed to be iconic. Do we even have iconic anymore? WHO IS ICONIC? Justin Timberlake? My mother? The New York Times?
They say print is going out of style. I'm a GRANDMA already. I'm moving to fucking Petaluma! I can't deal. New York City, I can't deal with you ... what is wrong????? Benicia, I certainly can't deal with you and your boring ass boring ass-ness. Crap. Get a fucking movie theater. Oh, wait, we don't NEED movie theatres anymore! We can just watch all the current releases from our COMPUTERS! : ) : ((
In the early 20th century, who were our icons?! Moreover, does it really matter? Am I simply nostalgic for a past that was just as f'd as the present?
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I am so much happier without facebook and television. I think the trick is to become a part of the system, not to let the system become a part of you. I refuse to be force-fed awkward, superficial, virtual relationships that would never exist IRL. To struggle to maintain something that I wouldn't want to confront in reality ... man, that took a lot of my energy. I also have less "want" in my life, because I'm exposed to far less advertisements, and I think that's the true ticket to happiness: to want only the things we are actively attaining.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if things are better or worse than they were, and it doesn't matter where they're going. Life is hard enough keeping up with myself. I don't need to keep up with the rest of the world.
And why do we need icons anyway?
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