We can’t feel anymore about small things - about the sunlight hitting the window, or a shade of blue, or a new color. Deadmau5 - The VeldtĪ lot of people may disagree about the nostalgia part, but personally, I believe that as a species, we’ve become numb to feelings. This can be summarized in one song I will never forget.
This is life now, these are my friends, I am a sack of water and bones pushing sausage sticks around to hopelessly connect to the internet while computers are transferring all my metadata around data centers at terabits per second. Then I just sit back and listen to the earth and know I have zero control over where and when I was born. We will rent our lives for the rest of eternity. Why would anyone want to work hard to achieve something when the internet has all the dopamine your brain could ever want? Mega corporations stepped in and bought up all the property our parents left behind. Humanity upgraded to microprocessors with online cyborg lives that have a loose connection to reality and why nobody places much emphasis on owning physical objects anymore. I feel like 2009 was the year that entire lifestyle of physical friendships and working a minimum wage job to afford a house died. Technology in 1760 completely messed up the primitive lives of everyone all over the world for almost 100 years until it stabilized for about 150 years. This is the next industrial revolution we learned about in textbooks. There was just the right amount of technology to be helpful and not take over our lives. Most things now just feel like an imitation of reality, which now warps in ways it shouldn't, just like our values. Now, since a lot of our life moved onto the internet and social media, (which btw I hold no grudge against per se, it is useful a lot of the time), it all got twisted up and ate our sense of the real world. You had to be present and cultivate relationships with people, and fuck up or succeed in the real world. Now, what is the common denominator in these stories, or lack thereof? That's right, no social media or smartphones in sight. I may be over-exaggarating in these, I was just a kid back then and saw the world through rose colored glasses, but you get the point. Cleaning ends up lasting the last 15 panicked minutes, you eat dinner, after which you head out for some club music since you are still too young to stay in all night. Wife nags you at first but then joins you on the couch since dinner is already done.
You should start dusting, but the new episode of Seinfeld is more important to catch right now. Your college friends are coming tonight for dinmer. You got home from work, filing up the car on the way and not ending up bankrupt in the process, and sat on the couch. Just gotta remember to charge your Nokia. It is the same old, just doing squat in the McDonalds parking lot with your friends but it never gets old. You get into your room, pop a CD into the boombox and fire up the AOL till lunch time to make plans for tonight. Prom is in 3 months, so naturally you are psyched. You just got home from school in your beat up Corolla that you bought from money you earned working at Blockbuster video last summer. You were too old for that? Ok, millenial vibes time. The playdate proceeds to last long into the evening, in which time you guys have built a Lego city that covers most of the flat areas in the living room, finished off a large pizza and Mario Kart 64'ed so much that your thumbs got sore.
All four of you pile into your Dad's Volvo wagon while Mom whooshes your backpack with toys from the front into the backseat. Of course, you are tired now, but you have a playdate arranged with that kid down the block while Mom and Dad work, so you are psyched anyway.
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I mean the feels that you had when mom was making you eggs for breakfast while you were just sitting there, ass on the floor in front of a big old boxy Sony TV and watching Scooby-Doo on Boomerang, while simultaneously smashing your Donkey Kong toy against your little bro's rubber dinosaur, cause both of you peeked through the door while your folks watched Godzilla the night before. Remember when you used to really feel things? Not like "I am so involved in /insert whatever superficial social media drama/trend is happening right now/", that's all just damn ridiculous.
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