Sometimes I wonder...
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Just sitting here at work, still thinking about how life works these days.
To quote myself from a comment on "Jenny Tatone's":http://mog.com/Jenny_Tatone blog on the subject of bands' apparent love of the past:_If the law of diminishing returns is to be believed, in the year 2020 bands will reinvent and reexplore the music that was released earlier that day. By 2035 Bands will Reinvent and reexamine styles within the same song. By 2050 bands will no longer create music as all music will have been re-tread and compressed into a singular tone that will be broadcast infinitly by a single speaker from space that constantly reinvents and reexamines itself at over six hunderd trillion times per second._Bleak, I know, but it gives me pause. With my baby now resting comfortably in utero at the begining of it's second trimester I can't begin to visualize the world my little angel will be faced with at my age. Look at how life was when I was a kid: No computers, no internet, no digital cable, no iPods, laptops, text messages, cds, blogs, cell phones, wiki's, DRM, RIAA, Myspace, PDAs, DVDs ot Napster. We had television, radio and the newspaper. Music was on radio and cassettes and unless you knew a band or subscribed to Rolling Stone you only found new obscure music by going to a record store. News was decided by the editors and producers, not bloggers or Fark.com. Sending a message to France still took an international phone charge or 4 weeks by mail. Look at the rate of change we've experienced in the last 20 years. Everything is digital, global, wireless and restricted by powerful corporations and special interest groups. We're seeing the access to information and media being at once expanded and constricted as the gap between the have's and the have-not's gets wider. No one talks anymore, people don't seems to care about eachother and a child's attention span can be measured in tenths of a second. Kids are protected to the extreme by groups who believe that a scraped knee, a spanking or a bad grade will send a child into a life of confused psycotic violence. We've elected ourselves a backwards government that believes that what we the people want is for them to pry into our privacy and tell us how to live our lives and what to be afraid of but leave us to our own devices when we're poor and homeless and hungry and sick. At my last job I worked with a guy who became sexually active at age 8 and doesn't see what the big deal is.My baby will inherit this steep slope of a society, but I can't say wether it will be ahead of, or behind, the ever-looming snowball._"And you may tell yourself: My God! What Have I Done!?"_
To quote myself from a comment on "Jenny Tatone's":http://mog.com/Jenny_Tatone blog on the subject of bands' apparent love of the past:_If the law of diminishing returns is to be believed, in the year 2020 bands will reinvent and reexplore the music that was released earlier that day. By 2035 Bands will Reinvent and reexamine styles within the same song. By 2050 bands will no longer create music as all music will have been re-tread and compressed into a singular tone that will be broadcast infinitly by a single speaker from space that constantly reinvents and reexamines itself at over six hunderd trillion times per second._Bleak, I know, but it gives me pause. With my baby now resting comfortably in utero at the begining of it's second trimester I can't begin to visualize the world my little angel will be faced with at my age. Look at how life was when I was a kid: No computers, no internet, no digital cable, no iPods, laptops, text messages, cds, blogs, cell phones, wiki's, DRM, RIAA, Myspace, PDAs, DVDs ot Napster. We had television, radio and the newspaper. Music was on radio and cassettes and unless you knew a band or subscribed to Rolling Stone you only found new obscure music by going to a record store. News was decided by the editors and producers, not bloggers or Fark.com. Sending a message to France still took an international phone charge or 4 weeks by mail. Look at the rate of change we've experienced in the last 20 years. Everything is digital, global, wireless and restricted by powerful corporations and special interest groups. We're seeing the access to information and media being at once expanded and constricted as the gap between the have's and the have-not's gets wider. No one talks anymore, people don't seems to care about eachother and a child's attention span can be measured in tenths of a second. Kids are protected to the extreme by groups who believe that a scraped knee, a spanking or a bad grade will send a child into a life of confused psycotic violence. We've elected ourselves a backwards government that believes that what we the people want is for them to pry into our privacy and tell us how to live our lives and what to be afraid of but leave us to our own devices when we're poor and homeless and hungry and sick. At my last job I worked with a guy who became sexually active at age 8 and doesn't see what the big deal is.My baby will inherit this steep slope of a society, but I can't say wether it will be ahead of, or behind, the ever-looming snowball._"And you may tell yourself: My God! What Have I Done!?"_
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