I feel that it's quite ironic that this day we talk so much, yet we communicate so little.
You have so many ways to communicate. You have the phone. You have the EMail. You have the instant messenger. You have IPTelephony. Most of the technology is communication oriented. Your mobile phone follows you everywhere. Your Pocket PC or Palm or whatever tells you where you are, where to go to, but they fail to tell you why you are there, or how you could really enjoy your presence there.
Quite a shame.
We talk a lot. I always have my talking program opened. I talk with many people, but that doesn't take me close to them. It only draws me to a confortable distance. The new generation communication only brings confort in the distance, nothing else. It's easy to be far away now. You can instantly contact anyone by phone, yet you can't enjoy their presence. You can easily hide yourself behind a messenger window. Now smileys took the place for real life gestures. You :), but you don't smile, you lol, or even rofl, yet your body doesn't react. Merely a smile forms as you live by your fingertips.
You can be upset yet smile. That's the greatest trickery of them all. You can be sensual, bold and smart, although you just copy-paste your life. You record every single line you say, yet you say always the same things. You argue with people, you laugh with people. You are playing games with people. Yet you never leave your death-chair.
You don't have memories, you have logs. You have photos. You don't like your face, but you can photo-manipulate everything you don't like out of your photo. You are perfect, yet you barely breathe.
Do you have a choice? I don't know. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. My guess: you cannot choose. Your card will contain your mobile phone numbers, your email addresses and your messenger IDs. Better yet, you can use your vcard. Tons of informations about you.
Except that you can't say there that you dream. You can't talk about the simple things anymore. Solutions are everywhere, you just have to search for them using Google.
There's no need to communicate. That's why this blog here is not about communication. It has no solutions, no questions, no answers. Only observation.
Enjoy These Days of Mine...
We communicate indeed much more than we used to - because we have the means to do so. When there's priviledge (and we have here a huge priviledge of fast communication developped worldwide) there will always be people willing to use it for various needs. But on the other hand, the meaningful communication you are reffering to is strangled by social dinamics and by the lack of freedom. Not only that we speak more and faster and we say little, but we also live longer, faster, and we learn little. I believe the lack of living - in whatever way you're using the term except the biological way - causes the lack of real communication and not vice-versa.
ReplyDeleteWhile writing a little poem for my blog I was not sure how the word "era" is spelled. So I googled the phrase: "communication era". I didn't expect the first hit to be another blog entry with almost the same subject as my little poem.
ReplyDeleteHehe… communication era!
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:) Really glad to hear.
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