What Are You Doing Right Now? (188 Viewers)

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X said:
amateur you say http://imgur.com/gallery/pFsZxl8
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:lol: Awesome. Particularly because my mom (in her 70s no less) is a Korean culture fanatic and watches K-Pop all the time. Who knows what she's getting.

Dule90 said:
Strange how time changes everything. Like 30 years ago when they did a study the results showed how 3% of population think it's needed to have second TV, while today that number is around 75%.
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30 years from now, that number might be different ... as in, "Who needs a TV? Isn't everyone getting their entertainment on tablets now?"

I've been listening to a lot of music from the 70s and 80s lately. And you can hear references to many things that no longer exist -- like the love letter, the answering machine, the complete obliviousness to things like social media or texting or the idea of a lack of social privacy among your friends who all have Facebook accounts and mobile phone cameras.

And yet at the same time I've encountered music that has no idea how prescient it was at the time. I was listening to "Ted, Just Admit It" by Jane's Addiction on my hike this morning. The whole idea of ubiquitous imagery and sexual violence and exposure has only gotten 5x worse than they thought back 25 years ago. :lol:
 

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Dule90 said:
Strange how time changes everything. Like 30 years ago when they did a study the results showed how 3% of population think it's needed to have second TV, while today that number is around 75%.

People get richer and it just triggers the need of people to have something more, like they see it's missing. Funny enough, most of those things are not needed at all. Kinda strange to see materialism being on the top of the ladders nowadays while at the same time happiness is at the lower rate.
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Globalization.
 
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"The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society, against the weight of the historical heritage and the external culture and technique of life. The antagonism represents the most modern form of the conflict which primitive man must carry on with nature for his own bodily existence. The eighteenth century may have called for liberation from all the ties which grew up historically in politics, in religion, in morality and in economics in order to permit the original natural virtue of man, which is equal in everyone, to develop without inhibition; the nineteenth century may have sought to promote, in addition to man's freedom, his individuality (which is connected with the division of labor) and his achievements which make him unique and indispensable but which at the same time make him so much the more dependent on the complementary activity of others; Nietzsche may have seen the relentless struggle of the individual as the prerequisite for his full development, while socialism found the same thing in the suppression of all competition - but in each of these the same fundamental motive was at work, namely the resistance of the individual to being levelled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism."

that is your struggle dusko
 
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