Friday, January 14, 2011

Ducks in a Row

In life, the multitude of perspectives from which one may view purpose and goal for continuing to live is an infinite spectrum  of in groups and out groups that merely establish bias and preference based, nearly but not entirely, on the environments that serve as the primary territory of operations.

Yes, I'm saying that people only do what they perceive is possible in the set limitations of their social environments. That is absolutely a stance that supports the idea of conditioning and nurture as opposed to evolution and nature(though, it is admittedly difficult to confine evolution to the constraints of nature).

In a basic sense, an individual is born alone(yes, even twins), that individual will age at it's own rate independent of the arbitrary measurements of time and will ultimately die alone regardless of who dies in the same place at the same time(like a romantic noir or something).

The only real time that we spend together is when we form teams or networks of individuals. Like connect the dots, each is still independent but the dots "use" some common interest to connect them and hopefully permanently. 

As the World evolves however, there remains traditionalists that have determined any new ways are subsequently inferior to the old tried and true ways simply because of the slow uptake of initial implementation involved in this very complicated improvement of social etiquette in regards to everything emotional.

What am I talking about??? Should be clear enough to make a hypothesis. I'm talking about Love. And how, with technology, keeping it sacred and reliable has become so much more complicated because there is so much more that is possible.

Between cell phones and computers, twitter and text, emails and envelopes; the entire relationship quagmire only gets murkier, clouded ever more by the increasing ability to maintain constant contact despite the most ridiculous distances.

On the outside, vast increases in technology appear to be a good thing but when the overwhelming potential mates with an overwhelming lack, the results can be a bit debilitating.  Trust issues develop, insecurity develops, bitterness develops, unhappiness follows and discord creates a distance that no amount of land could ever be removed to make disappear.

What can be done? The older generation has no idea what it is like to operate with no limitations. No hindrance to unleashing a walking, talking, mobile social media mega-headquarters that fits in the palm of your hand. All that power is unchecked and will corrupt absolutely. Especially, when you have nothing better to do than notice all that you don't have. (I may be telling on myself here but we'll never know.) 

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