Seananigans

(This post is a long one in the making. These are some of the ideas that have been running through my head about society and life, but I just had a touch of inspiration as I read a write-up on MySpace.)

The intention of this post is to give some examples of how I feel like we (people) are disconnected from each other. Of course , when you do read this (or anything for that matter), question it and make up your own mind about it - then write a reply @ the end :).


How many people do you see wearing headphones, or walking with their ears plugged into some iPod tune? How many people do you see talking on their cell phones? Or how many people do you see wearing sunglasses, so that you can not see their eyes (and girls with those silly oversized sunglasses)? How many times do you check your facebook / Myspace profile or messages? We spend so much time on facebook reading about people, but we make no effort to actually get to know them. We are content in our 'gossip' about who is doing what. We go to class, no i mean church, no i mean our homes, and we don't talk to the people around us. We go lock ourselves in our rooms, and drown it out to some music. Now we even have self check-out lines where you don't have to have any contact with other people (unless you get a 'red light'). Go on the bus and people just look straight forwards.

Am I over-generalizing? Yes. There are plenty of people who are friendly and will talk to you.

But also I do see this everyday as I walk around campus. People disconnected from each other. Even though they are 'right there' approximately and physically, they aren't 'right there' personally and spiritually.

Has it always been this way? Why is it like this? Does all this new technology really make are lives better and easier? Or has it just allowed us not have to interact with each other.

What are your thoughts?