30 March 2005

Trouble Living la Vida Loca?

Don't be frightened, I'm not selling you some drugs for some obscure reasons.

I live in a big city, we have everything that's absolutely necessary in order to survive the harsh condictions of the modern urban battlefield. There's no shortage of the latest cellphone with cameras or whatever fantastic gadgets they put out everyweek with great puntuality that put even the German and the Japanese to shame, all the hottest CDs, coolest movies with the most astonishing special effects the history has ever seen.

The 7-11 is at every corner, 5 minute walk. And we're so fond of our scooters and cars that we seize every single chance we have to let them roam the streets with their mighty roar. With 90km/h we arrived in our destination in just 3 seconds, enter (2 seconds), buy a beer (15 seconds), get out (2 seconds) and another 3 second journey back home. The total operation took less than half a minute, geezus, nature calls? Dude, I'm in a bloody hurry, you know.

But hurry for what? Hurry to go back home and watch TV? Hurry because you don't like going out because it is boring and disappointing while staying home and surfing the net will make such a life and death difference? You browse through one site to another, you have works to do but don't feel like doing it, you just click and click and click aimlessly, typing "Hi"s to people you don't know over the Yahoo Messenger and hope that you will get a reply and you can establish contact with someone because everyday you wake up you find that there's nothing in your Hotmail inbox. But often, just too often, there's no reply because they think you're just another frigging pervert looking for nothing but cybersex! And even though someone does reply and you have a fabulous time chatting with the person of the opposite of sex, when you turn off the computer, switch off the light, lying on the bed, you couldn't help staring at the dark room with dilated pupils.

Give in now, don't think. Life's easier when one's ignorant. We all are. However, life is no easier... So, in the end, are we not ignorant enough? Or we are just too innocent?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...
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Anonymous said...

Does ignorance necessary have to do with this? Why not simply egoism, self-pretection, spoiled manners etc.???

Nice blog, though :)

Anonymous said...

Sorry for my double-comment, it seemed that my first one didn't get through. Take the first one out, please... :)

Yokhim said...

¡Encantado de verte aquí Katrín! ¡Bien bienvenido! Good question and good example you mentioned. I agree with self-protection, it is indeed a reason why one would choose to spend more time on something, that's easier to hide the real self from, such as the internet.

2 things are named in the post: modern life and, consequently, its problem (among the lot) in man. The easiest (not necessarily the best) "solution" to all of his troubles is to simply ignore them, of course this doesn't mean that life will be more satisfying or happier, but it will be less problematic. By closing the door, he shuts out all the troublesome matters and wipes out the possibilities of disturbances of mind.

Anonymous said...

Good -now I see your point and how ignorance has to do with this.

All this stress can indeed head for ignorance. You live superficially and by your own. Once you have all the stimulies you like and can avoid the bad ones by running into the daily-rutine with help from TV, traffic, all the speed etc., then you avoid the essential contacts of human beings. It's a cliche, but not far from truth...

Yokhim said...

hehe, don't you know that I'm pretty ignorant?