I'm Not a Dinosaur Hunter
Been feeling some type of way.
It's 2014 and we have literally everything we could ever need at our fingertips. why then is there more depression, and mental duress than ever? On some strange emotional scale human beings seen to be becoming more and more disconnected every time we plug in or log on to some other amazing new technological device.
If you don't know something; Google it. "Google" is no longer a search engine but also an adjective.
Are we getting smarter or is that just something we tell ourselves to stay lazy and comfortable wrapped up in our tiny worlds of ipods and instagram?
Having coffee with a friend has given way to "snap chats" and Skype.
Kids would rather take selfies than take a walk outside. Our society is addicted to social media and more narcissistic than ever. I am guilty of it and it makes me sad. This is not who I dreamed I would be when I was a kid. I thought being an adult was going to be awesome but mostly it's a confusing state of constant transition and soul searching. I often thought thinking about who I wanted to be when I grew up was fun but it's not so much fun when you're 32.
I should have it figured out by now, right?
Gone are the days of Encyclopedias, card catalogs, and reference books. If you need a DIY you can find it in video form on Youtube. Don't get me wrong I love Youtube, in fact I'm using it right now to listen to Mogwai while I type this. I hate that I love Youtube. I hate how quick and easy the world is. The world has become a big whore and we are its pimp. Everyone knows a good whore ain't cheap and a cheap whore ain't good.
Sure I have an ipod, an iphone, 2 televisions, a home PC, and 2 laptops, but that only makes me feel dirty and like I'm part of the problem. I should be comfortable, secure, happy; but I'm not.
Why? Something is missing.
Human contact, Sunlight, emotional and the physicalities of life have all been grossly all but stripped away. We don't farm, we don't grow or harvest anything, save for animosity toward difference and each other.
If we need something we buy it at the store. Society seems to be lacking the pride we once had to farm and plow our own land, raise our own livestock, and children for that matter. Why would we want to raise our own babies when there is a nanny for that. Pretty soon there will no doubt be a nanny app to replace a real nanny. Perhaps a nanny-bot. The more I think the more my mind is spinning thinking about the social disconnect we are facing in the future and the reality of the one we are living.
We live in a world where the perfect blemish free french fry is more important than nutritional value. Who cares if it's poison as long as it looks and tastes good????
A world where laugh lines and wrinkles no longer tell a story on your face of a life well lived and struggles passed because they've been flushed away with Botox and Juviderm injections.
Plastic and wires have replaced flesh and bone and it seemingly has no end in sight.
I struggle with this. I offer no solution so therefore I continue to be part of the problem.
I can chose to live off the grid, to walk away from modern conveniences and gadgetry but can I really?
I don't really feel like a democrat. I don't really feel as if I have a choice. My vote, my voice, does it even matter? It's easier to be ignorant and except life as it is then live with the burdens and the disappointments that I; that we are not who we thought we'd be when we grew up. I'm not a dinosaur hunter, I'm not a zookeeper, or animal doctor.
I'm a bored, stagnant, 32 year old nurse who barely sees her patients or comforts them as a nurse was meant to do. Nursing just like life has become busywork, paperwork, and bullshit politics. Glorified, well paid secretaries of science. It's funny almost but I'm not laughing.
It's 2014 and we have literally everything we could ever need at our fingertips. why then is there more depression, and mental duress than ever? On some strange emotional scale human beings seen to be becoming more and more disconnected every time we plug in or log on to some other amazing new technological device.
If you don't know something; Google it. "Google" is no longer a search engine but also an adjective.
Are we getting smarter or is that just something we tell ourselves to stay lazy and comfortable wrapped up in our tiny worlds of ipods and instagram?
Having coffee with a friend has given way to "snap chats" and Skype.
Kids would rather take selfies than take a walk outside. Our society is addicted to social media and more narcissistic than ever. I am guilty of it and it makes me sad. This is not who I dreamed I would be when I was a kid. I thought being an adult was going to be awesome but mostly it's a confusing state of constant transition and soul searching. I often thought thinking about who I wanted to be when I grew up was fun but it's not so much fun when you're 32.
I should have it figured out by now, right?
Gone are the days of Encyclopedias, card catalogs, and reference books. If you need a DIY you can find it in video form on Youtube. Don't get me wrong I love Youtube, in fact I'm using it right now to listen to Mogwai while I type this. I hate that I love Youtube. I hate how quick and easy the world is. The world has become a big whore and we are its pimp. Everyone knows a good whore ain't cheap and a cheap whore ain't good.
Sure I have an ipod, an iphone, 2 televisions, a home PC, and 2 laptops, but that only makes me feel dirty and like I'm part of the problem. I should be comfortable, secure, happy; but I'm not.
Why? Something is missing.
Human contact, Sunlight, emotional and the physicalities of life have all been grossly all but stripped away. We don't farm, we don't grow or harvest anything, save for animosity toward difference and each other.
If we need something we buy it at the store. Society seems to be lacking the pride we once had to farm and plow our own land, raise our own livestock, and children for that matter. Why would we want to raise our own babies when there is a nanny for that. Pretty soon there will no doubt be a nanny app to replace a real nanny. Perhaps a nanny-bot. The more I think the more my mind is spinning thinking about the social disconnect we are facing in the future and the reality of the one we are living.
We live in a world where the perfect blemish free french fry is more important than nutritional value. Who cares if it's poison as long as it looks and tastes good????
A world where laugh lines and wrinkles no longer tell a story on your face of a life well lived and struggles passed because they've been flushed away with Botox and Juviderm injections.
Plastic and wires have replaced flesh and bone and it seemingly has no end in sight.
I struggle with this. I offer no solution so therefore I continue to be part of the problem.
I can chose to live off the grid, to walk away from modern conveniences and gadgetry but can I really?
I don't really feel like a democrat. I don't really feel as if I have a choice. My vote, my voice, does it even matter? It's easier to be ignorant and except life as it is then live with the burdens and the disappointments that I; that we are not who we thought we'd be when we grew up. I'm not a dinosaur hunter, I'm not a zookeeper, or animal doctor.
I'm a bored, stagnant, 32 year old nurse who barely sees her patients or comforts them as a nurse was meant to do. Nursing just like life has become busywork, paperwork, and bullshit politics. Glorified, well paid secretaries of science. It's funny almost but I'm not laughing.
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