08-01-2020, 05:53 AM
(08-01-2020, 04:37 AM)Antisthenes Wrote: I feel as though I've woke up on a foreign planet some days. I truly am blown away how the world changes in exponential ways around me in a time frame that leaves my head spinning. 1995 withthe internet, 2001 and the twin towers and everything after that has just been a blur. I talk to kids today and realize just what different beings they are from me. At their age, I shared much with my parents regardless of what I may have felt then. Our experiences were shared. We drove, we watched TV, we talked and we socialized and much the same way that they had in their youth. Now I look at and speak with kids and I don't even experience that we are even the same species. The world changes so fast now and I'm not ever prepared for it. It is all terrifically and horribly mesmerizing and terrifying, simaltaneously. My point I suppose is that this world is so different from the one I knew for most of my life that my knee jerk reaction is to recover what seemed to be my sane world from before. I finally realized I can't control what is happening nor how it happens. It's out of my hands.
So as a way to cope, I have become a voyeur. I watch with amazement and try not to make myself part of it. Because I wont be... and I can't be and I can't change it. It's a mad, mad, mad world and it's getting madder and I'm trying to avoid going mad engaging the madness. So if stress is going to be the tipping point then I'll avoid that stress and all the other nonsense this new world shoves down our throats, and daily. Truth is lies and every meme on the web becomes "fact". I can't and won't engage any of it because if I did, forget Covid, life itself on this "new" planet, this bizarre Astral plane I no longer regularly relate to that we inhabit will consume me with or without viral assitance..Did I mention? Aummmmmm........
This post resonates with me. Sometimes in practical senses I am supposed to be the answer to every problem. I don't carry a phone, don't own one. Just get on with life. Have a different upbringing and hands-on life's experience I guess.
I have no idea how to mend a handheld phone that's broken but I won't pay $1000 plus for a new one to watch the user constantly walking around with their head at the face of it. I guess it's like having a GPS to navigate life. Forgive me, I consider myself 'old'.
I see bitching about deaths and serious accident on road due to handheld devices. That mix of driving with a device just doesn't work for me. Sure, there's cameras and fines etc but when I gotta brake suddenly because some meat head with their phone walks across the road mit head phones nearly every-time I go into town I wonder what has happened to common dog sense. Beeping the horn isn't working as I would get ignored or receive the middle finger. So I guess I have to be a voyeur too later in my life if not now in other aspects. I don't stress out though but I see young people stressing out over a busted phone or the internet going out in a storm per-say.
Just a sigh and I move on. My little rant.
Kind regards,
Bally:)