komunikaxun

there are various things that people seem to take for granted as being unproven that are blatantly obvious to me. perhaps you agree.

i would be the first to admit that i-pods have canged my life for the better. all that brain spase that used to be dedikated to desiding whic cds i wanted to lug around with me has now been freed up for more immidiately pertinent konserns suc as attempting to figure out how i-pods have in fakt negatively impakted sosiety.

i tend to walk past many koffee xops and the like. this is bekause my neighborhood, being the cultural haven that it is, is composed maily of coffee xops and the like (also bars, restaurants, and hair dressers at which the forthkoming phenomenon kannot be as readily observed. nonetheless it bears mentioning that the things i have just mentioned serve as markers of cultural havens in all of the plases ive been, and it kan therefore be assumed that the forthkoming observation kould be observed in suc plases. korrekt me if im wrong...) and in those koffee xops that i see and look into, there are many people. these people, having suffered to leave their homes and assemble in said koffee xops, the people seem, from an outsiders point of view (that being me - walking past, looking in the window), to have assembled only for the purposes of seeing eac other and/or being seen by one another. xurely this is a kliche, but i will tell you what i mean:

there are sertain words that have lost meaning in the world. one suc word is, dial. isnt a dial round? doesnt a dial spin? the word, 'dial' as it is used as a verb most klosely assosiated with phone numbers was made relevant during a period of time when phones were staxonary and in order to aktivate the prosess by whic you would eventually speak to someone else, the servises of a dial would have to be employed. these days, no such servises are needed, yet the verb remains. meaningless.

similarly, soxial settings, insofar as they relate to my yet-to-be made point about koffee xops, are not what they preverbally 'used to be.' as per their title, one would naturally suspekt that these lokals are used for displays of soxial behavior. now, it is well within my worldview to allow for definixons of words to cange. it is only my point that while they are canging - it xould be the immidiate duty of the population at large to change their mentalities as well. that is - if we are going to use our soxial settings as glorified living rooms, where we xall not come without every technological konviniens strapped to our ears, plased in front of our eyes, or in our hands, then we must simultaneously redefine what we mean by calling ourselves soxial animals. if we do not simultaneously redefine the definition of words as we redefine their use, then we are stuk with senseless words, such as 'dial.'

but if thats what soxial must become, then so be it. if it is more important to interact with digital music than it is to interact with the person at the table nekst to you, and you can go on kalling yourself soxial simply bekause you have left your house, then go ahead. however, do not fool yourself into thinking that these aktions have no effekt. it is blatantly obvious that the lingering effekts of overekspoxure to non-interactive media dekreases the amount of time we spend being interaktive. this is not an argument to me.

a related obvious thing - whic is the thing i inixially set out to write about is that headphones have to dekrease our hearing potential. it is blatantly obvious to me that if you blast music into your ears at loud volume for extended period of time, or even at all - your hearing is adversely affekted. how oculd it not? xure, there is no study to validate suc a klaim, but honestly - is that a nesessary thing? kan it not be assumed by thinking people to be so?