I remember many years ago when people first started walking around with headphones on with their walk-mans (walk-men?), how I thought that was the silliest thing I’d ever seen. I thought it was bordering on criminal that they were ignoring all the sound around them – birds and traffic and other people. But the iPod people seem so lonely and isolated, as if they are saying “Don’t relate to me, don’t look at me, I’ve created a world that is better than yours…” Maybe I’m over thinking it? Maybe it’s because I don’t have one?
The iPod generation seem to bond over their doodads and playlists. I figure I’m just turning into a fuddy-duddy (which is fine, it’s inevitable). I’ve never been able to live life with constant musical accompaniment, but even in the 70s, before any of that stuff, there were folks who somehow couldn’t survive without their tunes.
I remember many years ago when people first started walking around with headphones on with their walk-mans (walk-men?), how I thought that was the silliest thing I’d ever seen. I thought it was bordering on criminal that they were ignoring all the sound around them – birds and traffic and other people. But the iPod people seem so lonely and isolated, as if they are saying “Don’t relate to me, don’t look at me, I’ve created a world that is better than yours…” Maybe I’m over thinking it? Maybe it’s because I don’t have one?
The iPod generation seem to bond over their doodads and playlists. I figure I’m just turning into a fuddy-duddy (which is fine, it’s inevitable). I’ve never been able to live life with constant musical accompaniment, but even in the 70s, before any of that stuff, there were folks who somehow couldn’t survive without their tunes.
Oh, yes — ever since Lyndon got one, he’ll forget he has earphones on and start talking in his outside voice.