I remarked today that TV is going to die. It's declining due to pirating and Netflix.
It's so strange, but I don't watch movies anymore. I used to love film but now, it's like meh, I don't need it. I watched Interstallar, it was really good, but it was mostly entertainment. My heart was hammering, it was super suspenseful and I didn't regret watching it. But it's strange how TV and movies and stuff it's all just passing by and I'm not super interested. The culture is changing toward watching videos on Youtube, short clips of entertainment that have no value, all to tell something socially about who we are: short-attention spanned, like our children will be. Screening is actually really bad for children and yet I've seen parents give their babies Iphones to play with. I don't even know all that iPhone (where's the capital again? :p) or like Android (whatever that is) and all that stuff, I don't even. I don't have a phone. I have Facebook though and I check it obsessively. I hate it, really. Once I didn't have internet and it was so amazing, and then we got it and I was like... :s now I have to go on Facebook. I don't, but it's in my bloodstream now. Facebook=crack. I was talking with my partner and we were discussing how people who don't have internet can now be out of the entire cultural loop. TV can't keep up and Yahoo news and sites are just recycling old stories from faster websites like Reddit and even Facebook, which picks up from really current news forums. Also, a cultural 'tendence' recently is the whole College humour/Buzzfeed videos that are short clips about really dumb, useless stuff. They're awesome and I love them as much as anyone else, but they're really a waste of time. I heard people at school rave about them and about how funny and good they are, like they've just had an aesthetic experience in front of a Von Trier movie. Jesus, calm down child, calm down, it was a reaction to Saké not an masterpiece. Sigh... where is culture going? Should we worry? Should we care?
YouTube clips were way too long so they invented Vines that are only 6 seconds long. We had Facebook status updates, but those had no restrictions on length; Twitter took care of that.
ReplyDeleteThings are changing rapidly because of technology and Smart Phones. Now we have a generation of people that no longer value their privacy, our children probably won't even understand why you would ever want to make information private? Why WOULDN'T I want my information to be public they'll say.
Another consequence is that we have collective knowledge at our fingertips. The idea of having a question pop into your head and having the ability to have it answered in seconds wherever you are would have been previously unheard of.
More negative consequences include carrying around a personal locator that can track you to within 20 meters. And of course, the fact that we have no more attention span, we crave constant on-demand media wherever and whenever. As with what you mentioned too, we constantly check our Facebook, social media outlets etc, or at least if one does not have a Smart Phone. Because then you don't have to constantly check your Facebook, your phone can rudely interrupt whatever important thing you are doing and compel you to look at the boring post someone you do not know commented on from a group you joined that you are no longer interested in.
I like to watch pre 2000 movies sometimes just to see how the characters deal with situations without Smart Phones and on-demand media. Now that stuff is in just about every new movie, sitcom, series, etc and I find it rather annoying, like in real life.
Well, I'm off to check my Facebook and email.
Wann! I know! I used to refuse to have the tabs at my disposal, but I do because I get tired of writing 'F' in my address bar. Huu huu. Yeah, I'm glad that I'm doing a Philosophy major because it keeps my mind running, and my favourite movies are by Lars Von Trier and other wack awesome directors as such. Thanks for sharing!
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