Voueristic tendencies...
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msfledermausI've been peeking at random livejournals again...many of the ones I'm running into seem to be teenagers. I wonder what I would have done with a livejournal in high school?...
"Life is the angst-ridden existence that plaugues the dank darkness that opens it's arms to death, sweet death, in it's infinite void-type substance..."
Okay, maybe it would have been a bad thing:)
But so far the kids I've read haven't been overly angsty, they're just living their lives. It makes me smile a little bit, remembering what it was like to be that age. Not that I'd trade, though. One of the great things about aging is that every day you're alive is one day further away from Junior High:)
I've been thinking about our tendencies to want to peek in at other people's lives. (That's what livejournal is for, bebeh!) Okay, more like I'm thinking about the extremes--shows like "Survivor"
and "Temptation Island" (Which I caught about 5 minutes of before I shut the tv off, muttering to myself.) Our TV shows seem so eager to goad our culture into a feeding frenzy of voyeristic cruelty...and we're so starved(yes, starved!) for attention that we watch them, or star in them. It seems a bit stupid for me to dwell on this, since this isn't exactly news for anybody...but it does disturb me.
But at the same time, I love the cams, I love Livejournal, I love to be invited into a small piece of someone's life, to see what they think is important and how they live, what they dream about. I love the sense of communtiy. That's probably the big difference for me, the inclusiveness of the medium. Which means I love you, out there in the dankey darkness staring deeply into the monitor... looking for the soul of a person encapsulated in pixels and goofy pictures.
Just like I do.....
Ms Fledermaus with a 5-minute pontification for your edification. (Hey! I did that poet thing again!)
"Life is the angst-ridden existence that plaugues the dank darkness that opens it's arms to death, sweet death, in it's infinite void-type substance..."
Okay, maybe it would have been a bad thing:)
But so far the kids I've read haven't been overly angsty, they're just living their lives. It makes me smile a little bit, remembering what it was like to be that age. Not that I'd trade, though. One of the great things about aging is that every day you're alive is one day further away from Junior High:)
I've been thinking about our tendencies to want to peek in at other people's lives. (That's what livejournal is for, bebeh!) Okay, more like I'm thinking about the extremes--shows like "Survivor"
and "Temptation Island" (Which I caught about 5 minutes of before I shut the tv off, muttering to myself.) Our TV shows seem so eager to goad our culture into a feeding frenzy of voyeristic cruelty...and we're so starved(yes, starved!) for attention that we watch them, or star in them. It seems a bit stupid for me to dwell on this, since this isn't exactly news for anybody...but it does disturb me.
But at the same time, I love the cams, I love Livejournal, I love to be invited into a small piece of someone's life, to see what they think is important and how they live, what they dream about. I love the sense of communtiy. That's probably the big difference for me, the inclusiveness of the medium. Which means I love you, out there in the dankey darkness staring deeply into the monitor... looking for the soul of a person encapsulated in pixels and goofy pictures.
Just like I do.....
Ms Fledermaus with a 5-minute pontification for your edification. (Hey! I did that poet thing again!)
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Date: 2001-01-24 12:25 pm (UTC)Proud mommy!!*point point!!*
Date: 2001-01-24 12:47 pm (UTC)Ms F-- *grin*