how do you consistently write the thoughts i feel crazy for thinking as though they are completely normal and beautiful ways to think?
I’ve been feeling like modern people are, across the religious spectrums, pressured to feel so convinced of their own cosmic unimportance that they think there are no “messages from God” worth noticing for them in the real world, the world that they obviously share with other people. but in the digital world, there’s this illusion of a world created just for them, a world of potential “messages from god” made up of targeted ads and “the algorithm” and personalized “radio stations” and—the only thing that is real, because it (is assumed to come from) real people—comments on their posts and DMs. people plug in because they get addicted to, seduced by this false world that can claim to actually be all about them, while the real world is staunchly about everyone, all the time.
another part of it is an issue i think could be called “music pollution,” like light pollution for would-be stargazers—vocal pop music that was meant to be listened to as foreground music is blasted as background music everywhere, all the time and the only escape in the modern urban world is headphones playing “your own” choice of music. i’d much rather hear the noises of the world, of other people.
Hailo (& and anyone else who is interested), I recommend checking out Samuelle Collu’s works titled “A Therapy of Screens” and “#Zoombies.” He writes a lot about screens, similar to this, which he taught in his medical anthropology course at McGill.
how do you consistently write the thoughts i feel crazy for thinking as though they are completely normal and beautiful ways to think?
I’ve been feeling like modern people are, across the religious spectrums, pressured to feel so convinced of their own cosmic unimportance that they think there are no “messages from God” worth noticing for them in the real world, the world that they obviously share with other people. but in the digital world, there’s this illusion of a world created just for them, a world of potential “messages from god” made up of targeted ads and “the algorithm” and personalized “radio stations” and—the only thing that is real, because it (is assumed to come from) real people—comments on their posts and DMs. people plug in because they get addicted to, seduced by this false world that can claim to actually be all about them, while the real world is staunchly about everyone, all the time.
another part of it is an issue i think could be called “music pollution,” like light pollution for would-be stargazers—vocal pop music that was meant to be listened to as foreground music is blasted as background music everywhere, all the time and the only escape in the modern urban world is headphones playing “your own” choice of music. i’d much rather hear the noises of the world, of other people.
Hailo (& and anyone else who is interested), I recommend checking out Samuelle Collu’s works titled “A Therapy of Screens” and “#Zoombies.” He writes a lot about screens, similar to this, which he taught in his medical anthropology course at McGill.
I always roll down my window while travelling and it's true the world's noise is harmonising music . 🫶