The artist I couldnt be
The artist I couldnt be,
for they
read me, follow ,ping me, tag me.
How bored fellows are they.
The incessant cries of the virtual socializer, begging of you to comment, wanting you to “lol” on him/his. With technology providing a way of fulfilling every basic human craving… the compulsive attention seeker seeks some more attention on his blog/twitter/relationship status on his facebook page. The emotionally deranged insecure puppy has arrived… on every social forum..
They want you to like them, follow them, comment on their needy writings. They expect you to like what they fell in love with. Who needs a psychiatrist when you have 241 friends on facebook haan??
Its not all that bad you see… a facebook account can be a litmus test on that person. See what he likes….see his pics.. invade a little privacy of his on his consent..be friends with him. And there..you know the person with the kind of status updates he like.. if I ever recruit people..their facebook profile will be a criteria…so will be their blog. But a caveat. Ever wondered how even ultra boring and stupid people get number of hits on their blog.. (Because you visit them..).Its a fools haven..out here with 24×7 google search giving you insight on every possible conversation starter, a spell check to make the most sense out of your writing..and a vast web full of other needy people you can borrow some thoughts from. Who needs original??
Wonder whether we will have another great book or poem or painting.. And you know why. Because all great novels are/were written in solitude, isolation. The human brain is known to work at its best in isolation, in social depreivity. In the stiffling corners of victorian walls did bronte write her Heathcliff. Now imagine if she did have a facebook account back then…how on Earth was she going to avoid that craving to make status updates. Had there been emoticons back then, I think we would have a smiley for Monalisa!! So in short, what I am trying to say is that the rise of machines as we may call it, is killing the flair for art, creativity ….why??… well it is that the social denegration has produced the best artists, their genius is a product of their introvert, lack of social conduct… and contact.
Now I know why cannot be the next da vinci. Even if I have what it takes… I am deprived of my share of social deprivation. Stupid Broadband!!!
Facebook, I suppose, increases the lack of social conduct. I doubt that facebooking/twittering decreases the chances of the next da vinci piece coming out. I mean, I don’t know. They don’t really seem to connect (at least to me). I mean, *you* do a lot of facebooking/blogging, and you’re turning out to be pretty witty. So are the thousand other bloggers whose blogs I follow. (Not that I imply that you’re the next da vinci
)
Not literary marvels (I can hardly comprehend anything), but they seem to be pretty good. How does social communication over the internet affect the literary prowess of an individual? Aren’t attention seekers and people *really* adept at writing two different species?
Siddhant
October 10, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Well… Sometimes attention seekers tend to be unreasonable. I usually habitate with unreasonable..you know .. use it as a device…
Now digressing a bit to tell that a dictionary may define hyperbole as “a figure of speech which uses exaggeration for a comical effect”… just digressing..not implying anything at all ye see
Iago
October 10, 2009 at 4:56 pm
umm i guess attention seekers are almost always unreasonable. the fact that they “seek” attention is unreasonable.
Siddhant
October 10, 2009 at 5:52 pm
In his own universe of discourse, he has wedded rationality… just that his differs from yours
Iago
October 11, 2009 at 3:20 pm
so he already is a da vinci. in his own universe. had the wedding been public, things might have been a little different.
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on a sidenote btw, i still feel that wits have got nothing to do with regular internet social conduct.
i might be wrong though. your language is so cryptic.
(i wish i could generate a prime number fast enough so as to break it.
Siddhant
October 11, 2009 at 4:11 pm
well..I dont really say that social forums are making people unwitty in some way, I would rather believe the opposite(Given time i spend writing my status updates). But I think that it is more of a 24/7 window to the world, when you are not doing anything…you are writing messages to be read by others.. and this is where I feel that introspection has vapoursied from our times.
Iago
October 13, 2009 at 3:05 pm