I’m not really sure of what it means but it seems like everybody is hiding under a constant promiscuous mask today. Internet, which was meant to deliver freedom to people, is now becoming some kind of a jail where many people inadvertently seek their freedom through a persona they create, trying to convince themselves that every lie written on a stupid chat and every false opinion in a forum can actually make out their personality.
I thought that such an amazing form of communication was meant to be useful and well, actually it is useful, but not when you use it to delete your real life and you find yourself stuck in this unreal and false world that someone wants to deliver to you as a new way of living things. So many young people are simply losing the pleasure to hang out and actually know other people for real, their smiles, their angry faces, their voices…
Something went terribly wrong, not everything…but something surely did.
You can say that through a chat or a dating site you can get to know a person for their feelings, without seeing their exterior, but is this really true? Don’t you want the “all inclusive” thing? I mean the whole package? Don’t you wanna see a thing when you buy it? Why should this be different for a person you want to share yourself with? Don’t you wanna see the eyes of a person you call love, or friend?
Maybe it’s just me, maybe I am the one who just doesn’t get it, maybe I’m the one who’s talking shit, but wasn’t the community thing meant for fun? How did it become a parallel life? How did it become this kind of ‘half life’?
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Well, that's all well and good, but tell me - what character from Buffy the vampire slayer are you most like?
;p
Hear Hear Alex! Not Second Life but Half Life or No Life......
The question should be why do we do this to ourselves? Who owns Linden Research anyhoo? Why does it take so long to join the goddamn thing?
look at alexander rodchenko; russian graphic artist and photographer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodchenko
this is about the lithuanian film i mentioned
http://www.secession.at/art/2007_narkevicius_e.html
quote from the web-page:
"Once in the XXth Century (8 min., 2004) shows the installation of a Lenin statue with an applauding audience on a public square in Vilnius. Using Lithuanian television footage that originally documented the dismantling of the Lenin monument in the 1990s, Deimantas Narkevičius edited a new film of the monument being erected. After the majority of the socialist monuments were removed at the end of the last century, either by spontaneous popular action or by the state, they now testify, as fleeting and dematerialized traces, to a collective but unfulfilled belief in an alternative society. In his video, Deimantas Narkevičius uses this “reversal of images” to bring the cult of personality and the public installation of ideological symbols, which have long since become history, into the present. In formal terms, Once in the XXth Century is an ironic commentary on the recurring scenes of ideological manifestations in various political epochs, and on the resulting iconoclasm as a radical measure of historical correction."
may be relevant: http://www.bpb.org.uk/2008/blog/3261/archive-poster-from-mass-observation-archive/
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