Yes, yes, there is probably no such thing as "colding", but can you deny you feel it? It comes as you grow older. Does it come with age, or with experience? Is it part of society's progress? No, it can't be, i really don't see where the advance is in becoming distant to others. This colding sends chills down my spine and science can't tell me how to fight it, it's not like carbon dioxide. What shall we do? Explain to me this phenomenon- the Earth becomes hotter every year, threatening us with ecological destruction, but we grow ever colder and focus our minds on our career and social network. The causes we follow with such enthusiasm are channeled through the internet. I ask how many of you have the heart to go out in the street for that same cause you signed under in a web-page? You might start a chit-chat with a stranger on the internet, but not at the bus stop while waiting for the damn ride to come. Why? What are you afraid of or real communication just revolts you?
I wish I could blame it on technology, but it is just a tool we use to dispatch our lives from nature and even reality. We are the abusers and the victims.
We're lazy, we grow more and more egocentric and motivate ourselves with survival. If survival means you have to be a self-important bastard, please die today.
If you have no time to meet your friends in person, it's because you want it to be that way. If you have no desire to see them, yes, you are sick. And human drama probably just entertains you. You've seen so much on TV it doesn't even seem real any more.
When you lose a friend...you just don't give a fuck anymore, he's to blame, you have bigger issues. You'd be right for the last one- you are one big issue. But I bet you have an i-pod- the balm for all your wounds. Turn it on to a favourite song. Technology is always there to fill the gaps.
You get older, you get colder, but why? Do you suddenly get enlighten how life is a merciless fight? Oh, please! Other peoples' warmth is what makes the fight possible to win. And still, we start rotating our lives strictly round small circles as time advances. We doubt others' goodness, we are more stressed, we feel tired and we feel caged. We search for someone to take the blame or take the pain, cause we can't find a way out. Aren't we a neat little bundle of humanity and perspectives?
it must be progress. You know, this new term "global colding" must be linked somehow with all the technological advances born the past decades. Well, there is one basic principle- the demand defines the production. We had a demand for all this with its monstrous capacity. Truth is we've been rotten for a long time- long before facebook, myspace, the cyborg sex dolls etc. We've been becoming bastards for decades, maybe centuries, even millenia. Back when there was no technology to blame all passed the guilt on the government (as we still do) and society (as we still do) and the priority of self-preservation and what not. I'm sick of excuses, we seem to find even more of them and excuses just prevent us from solving the problems. And the problem is? The base of society? Should it change? Isn't it a base all of us constructed and settled for? Some were passive, but it still counts as a silent agreement. The thing that really needs to change and will make a difference is... our mindset. Change your ways. Go viral with this. Taking the best care for yourself also happens to be the best care for everybody- this is the basic principle of a good society as i see it, but we have a very poor idea of what "good for oneself" consists of.
But don't take my word for all this. What do you have to say?
