iPod-nation

[franceslievens]

The white earbuds have a negative effect on my blogging productivity. I seem to be more concentrated on the music I listen to (I suddenly am aware of what all these people are actualy singing about), and no longer find it interesting to think up little gems for other people to read. It's not that the world isn't interesting enough to be documented. It's simply that the documenting isn't interesting anymore. I can't find a place for myself in between the hundreds, thousands, millions that are documenting their world. Listening to hollow love phrases coming from my iPod, I can only consider how mundane all these gadgets are: the music, the computer, the blog... And that's not the blog entry I want to write. So I come home, head filled with music and lyrics, but not with words to fill the virtual pages of a public journal.

Comments

[thefirstoops.livejournal.com]

We're the iGeneration. Empty but for our pursuit of entertainment. We like to watch.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there is also subsantial number that likes to exhibit oneself. We like other people to watch, we like to show them how special we are, and then consider that world we create ourselves much more interesting than the words of the millions of others, having the exact same aspirations. Do these considerations actualy clash, or are they able to live side by side? The idea we want to watch and be entertained seems contrary to the exhobitionism that can be found on the internet, but one can't live without the other.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Here we are now... entertain us.

Says it all really. Sometimes we're all so pretty vacant.

I've been quiet on lj-land, too. There is stuff floating around in my head but it refuses to take shape.

I think we're actually quite good at combining voyeurism with exhibitionism. We like being watched while we're watching others (and ourselves) - lots of screens and mirrors, but what do we actually see?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Yes, voyeurism and exhibitionism go hand in hand. It seems like the people who like to watch are actualy the ones that like to show the most of themselves as well. Or want to be watched. We combine them all the time.

It is an interesting topic btw. Maybe I should write something about it. ;-)

I've got that same problem. There are things swarming in my head, but they don't take on wordly substance, so I can actualy write them down. So I stay quiet, and miss getting attention. ;-)