Happy Now?

Heaven knows I have waited

All my days to unearth a

Partner that could support and

Provide me with the love I craved.

Your arrival in my universe was

Nirvana. Finally, I have the

Omnipotent power of love; the

Woman I have yearned for, so long.

      What a time to be alive. Over the past half century, the world has morphed into a technological wonderland that our ancestors would have found far fetched. With our advancement in bringing the world together; a lot of societal norms have evolved into new ideas and techinques that later generations will need to learn, or have been born into. The world will never be the same; the world is all new.

  

      Technology is one of those things that previously I have railed against for destroying people's abilities to be people; turning us into a nation of viral visions. This post is not going to rehash those ideals. I will say that, technology makes us all available (or confident) to be so many different things and to so many foreign places. The world has progressed to the point where making a simple phone call (especially in private life) is a novel concept; a last resort of corrospondence. No need to visit with friends and family, because they are simply a click away on our Facetime, Facebook or Twitter accounts.  We can allow people we have never even met in person to have full access to our lives in social media - how we are feeling; what we are eating; when we brush our teeth. Whereas many of us maintain our jingoistic pride; the internet is now the one true World Order; the place where we are all one - a part of the moving juggernaut of information and interaction. With a video camera and six seconds; a nobody from Oklahoma can become an international sensation in Germany. Where we once had our friends, family and locl community to shape our ideals; there is an abundance of opinions (learned, respected, and other) where we can uncover the entire spectrum from truth to fantasy on a range of topics. It fascinates me every time I log into my school online and know that - right now - somewhere else in the United States someone else is attempting the exact task I am doing from a completely different location. That's some Inception type stuff right there! It's funny - Absence once made the heart grow fonder; but in current day there is no real reason to be absent from anyone else. There is definitely a physical component missing; but it's more fullfilling then ever to "reach out and touch someone". How long before sceince comes up with a way to do that? In modern society, nothing is out of conceptual bounds.

     Time has also moved us past the idea that, in order to be an "upstanding citizen", once must fill a role and be a "type"; not themselves. I will save my vitriol on that for another day. The wonder of this paradigm shift is that - now for the first time in history - individuality is not only appreciated; it is encouraged. Being able to reach out to so many that are unlike us allows us to drop the facade and be all of what we are - shady, silly, goofy, creative, brilliant. Without the internet, would Rebecca Black have ever been known outside of her school, family and friends? Of course not. Youtube was the "boom tube" that allowed a full scale blast worldwide of her epic struggle to decide on cereal. Then, in an effort to assert their individuality, a slew of others took to Youtube to copy her and give their own "touch" to the product. Hey, not everyone gets the whole "individual" thing. Look at Punk Rock. Deny authority by conforming to your musical community. Nevertheless, people want to be seen and heard from and share their ideas - and that's a magnificent thing.

     Unless you were into Honey Boo Boo.

      Express yourself, people. Technology demands it!