I remember when we used to be unaware of most of everything. We did not know anything at all, we just were, there, around, walking and trying to find mysteries we did not even know they existed.
I remember having to copy cassettes from friends to get the latest imported album, borrowing underground porn, renting copied VHS tapes, and finding the best Slayer album 3 years after its release. it was fun, we were surporised and amazed by everything. I always had this hope of having that bootleg album I had heard of. That song I heard somewhere and I did not have a clue who sang it.
We are now all doomed , we must know it all, if we don’t the common questions comes: “did you google it?? ” and we believe everything that there is, we even trust our health to Google. If we have a pain somewhere, just search it and do what it is said there.
Have a problem, do what that old blog says, need to know the future, consult the online fortune teller, we are so submerged in it that we do not even bother to walk around and meet the neighbors, we just twitt what ever thought is in our minds.
I am not against it, but I am aware of it. We should be more responsible when using Google, twitter, Facebook and all those hundreds of social sites and networks.
When was the last time you heard a record from the first note to the last, when was the last time you spent the day listening over and over to a LP just mesmerized by its cover (Iron Maiden used to blow mi mind) …??
I feel like talking with my granpa and apologizing by not understanding his words when complained about the TV, Atari and Walkman…..
Juanmanuel Cunningham 