Technology

I have alot of really mixed feelings in regards to the devices that dominate our daily lives. On one hand, I really like the convenience of accessing the entire volume of my music collection on one small and easy device, yet on the other, the dependence i display towards my ipod sickens me. Everyday, time vanishes as we succumb to the mundane pleasure of time spent viewing random information, pictures, and opinions. It is an escapade into the virtual, an escape from our present, material existence in exchange for one with an immaterial and formless reality. One can argue that this daily reversion is a source of healthy mental stimulus, but I personally see it as a continuing digression towards a world void of responsibility and full of disillusion. A perfect example of how technology is corrupting the behavior of the masses is the growing numbers of relationships that begin and end along the wires of communication. Rather than living their lives through its raw physical nature, and the anxiety that comes with it, they choose to avoid the issue via the great instruments of "progress" that humankind has created. The lines of reality have been blurred, people now know that they don't have to face problems head on, and they don't have to take responsibility for their actions, they simply need to reroute and re-word, something the daily routinues of our society has provided us plenty of practice with.