How quickly we forget the past.

I really hate doing this, but I have to weigh in on Miley Cyrus. This media swarm and frenzy over her lately is massive. I'm just adding to the pile of worthless attention that we are giving her. But alas I'm fed up with our response to what she's doing. So I can be silent no more.

We have the fans and the haters. I am a hater. I'm ok with that. It seemed on my facebook feed after the Twerking incident that she had done something to change the world... are we overreacting a little bit here. We have two entertainers doing what they do best. Entertaining us. Consuming our attention. Giving us something to watch and talk about later. I'm not the one to judge if what she did was morally wrong or right, but it seems the general consensus was that she tarnished whatever clean image she had before.

But the act it self and pure raunchiness and her flaunting of sexuality paired with the all American good girl image that we were accustomed to seeing simply evaporated instantly when she took to the stage. This abrupt jostling of perception and method of forcing sexuality upon viewers is the cause of the attention.

But quite simply our society loves to see things crash and burn.

Things and Stuff

I'm surrounded by things.

• Things I own. 
• Things to do. 
• Things that need fixing. 
• Things that need ignoring. 

I have lots of stuff too.

• stuff I don't use
• stuff I need to get rid of
• stuff I wear
• stuff I use a lot
• stuff I care about

Is my life so much more fulfilling because I have lots of things and stuff? I have all these things, but have they really brought some sort of significant change or additional substance to my life. I can't say that anything that I have ever bought has really had a lasting impact on my life. There is no thing that any time I use it where I consistently am thankful that I have that thing.  

The things that really mean something to me only seem to actually have meaning once they are gone. A sad realization that I have come to. I'm not sure if its simply because in this world of abundance, that I go from one thing to the next. If that one thing wasn't making me feel good, there are certainly other things that I can use, do, or participate in that would do.

I don't think I'm making a really good point so far. This seems so vague. Perhaps its my wording. The use of a word that could be anything. Take 2.

What would you do if you had nothing but the clothes on your back? No toothpaste, no closet full of clothes, no laptop, no iphone, no fridge full of food, and no sofas to sit on. Life would be considerably different. The things that used to be so important would seem incredibly trivial. Checking and chatting on facebook would be the last thing on your to do  list. Finding something to eat. A place to sleep at night. Now those would be on the forefront of your mind. 

Is it so inconceivable to imagine a world without youtube videos? Media has evolved incredibly in the past 10 years. We've gone from having short attention spans to having none at all. We've shortened and condensed so many things into bits. Data is the limit we must always consider. Is it too long, will it fit? 

Digital Escape

I  often wonder is it possible now to live without being connected to internet. Not that I cannot live without it, but could I escape from it. Could I actually not connect to the internet for an entire month while living in the United States. I'm sure its doable. But for a web developer, Facebook checker, tweeter, and smartphone user. It could be very difficult to get away from it all.

I would kind of like a world without my cell phone. Not having to stay up to date on email. Hearing first hand from  friends and family about things that they are doing. As a society we simply can't just remove the internet from our lives. It would be incredibly interesting if it was just shut off for a day. Image the electricity we would save!

I would love to spend a month without being connected to the internet. I think it would be incredibly interesting to disappear digitally. Would anyone even notice that I was gone? Will my Facebook posts be missed, why isn't he checking his email? Why hasn't he responded to my texts? Or would they carry on, oblivious to the fact that they had lost a measly one person from our vast social networks.

state of asherrard

I live in a world that puts Justin Bieber right next to a Federal government shutdown. Something is seriously wrong.

We are so distracted with the billion things that we could do. Instead of staying focused on something important.

The result of hyper-media. We simply cannot consume information any faster. Unless there was a direct download of info into our own thoughts. We have been overloaded with choice. Entertainment is practically force-fed down our throats.  An ad on the radio invites me to watch a tv show, which in turn wants me to purchase more products, and watch more tv shows. I feel like it will never end.

Feeling like the world we've engineered and designed is falling apart. But there is always a hope that we can stop the spiral downward.