We will soon lose the ability to explain and express ourselves. It's sounds silly but we will shortly lose the skill to speak and describe what is around us, because when anything happens now, we record it on camcorders or mobile phones. We hold up those little screens and say monosyllabically "look at this" - gesturing with our free hand while our friends squints to see the blurry image on a 2 inch screen, which with words could have been so much more clearly illustrated.
We will in time return to our Neanderthal roots, when we would point at our bellies to suggest hunger, point at our privates to suggest desire and point at the sky to suggest fear.
I guess the problem is that we just don't have time, or make time to listen to each other telling us about our lives. We just want a 10 second clip, rather than a 15 minute explanation. It's a magazine culture we live in now, and we just desire colourful pictures, headlines and soundbites rather than honest, passionate description; we don't like things too complicated because it makes us feel stupid - "so just make everything stupid, so we can feel superior". Well I like feeling that there is something better out there, something I have to work towards, something that is important.
Our lives are surrounded by meaningless trivia and because of this we think less about the important things and more about crap, maybe this is a government initiative; after destroying trade unions and socialist thinking, they will fill the gap with junk, to prevent rational consideration. And now there is no one left who wants to question our way of living.. well there is me, and hopefully you.
What is funny though, is that if you put someone on tele, we will listen attentively. We will watch strangers carrying out mundane tasks, and devote hours of our busy lives keeping up with what is happening in their lives. But they are just like us! Isn't it more worthwhile talking and sharing with your friends and finding out what they have been up to, rather than some stranger, just because they are on the tele this week? We give them the title of celebrity, but there is nothing to celebrate. We call them personalities, but they have no personality.
