Mom's sudden verbal barrage did snap me out of my glazed reverie with the screen, but I was absolutely unconvinced with the validity of her concerns and the accuracy of her outlandish claims.
Granted I had been playing the new Borderlands for near five hours at a stretch, but addiction to videogames? No siree.
I am addicted to consuming media.
I got off the laptop to placate the matriarch but immediately plopped down in bed, and continued my thrilling read of Hitchhiker's.
Funny enough, I apparently don't have a reading addiction.
We have become a generation of information hoarders. And this has been going on for quite a while too. Every single subsequent generation is born smarter than the last. Now babies are learning languages off youtube and racism off Fox, before they can even find their own feet.
The education system does not help in this regard either, rather it exacerbates the condition. Ever since we are little we are forced to absorb tremendous amounts of information as we are told that that is the only way to succeed. Since, everything is a competition the kid with the most information wins.
Now our brains physically have not been able to keep up with how fast our minds are expanding, absorbing. This leads to the all so common stresses and depressions of everyday life. People find that they can't relax any more, can't "turn off" because you literally cannot: you are being constantly bombarded wherever you are.
Have you noticed how slower music seems to be dying out? Nowadays all the young whippersnappers are listening to their dubsteps and electronic-houses. Music with very very high beats per bar. I theorise, with my severe lack of knowledge on the subject, that this is how the brain of today tries to relax: by consuming media on the same frequency as everything else. Hard and fast music is preferred because that is what the mind is familiar with.
So what is going to happen? I guess either our brains will eventually physically adapt to our lifestyles or we will all crash and go back to a more primitive system.
Will be interesting either way though, don't you think?
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