The Experience vs. The Moment
It's unfortunate, but kids today will happily leave a great moment in order to tell everyone on Twitter or Facebook how great the moment was.
Record producer and disc jokey, DJ Clark Kent, sums it up nicely…
An interviewer asks about the experience of growing up in the 1980's music scene.
DJ Clark Kent answers: "We weren't living in it like it was an experience. We were living in it like it was the moment. Unlike how today you have cameras and internet and ipods and all kinds of crazy stuff to record every moment and photograph every moment and then blog every moment. We didn't have that. We were just living. So, the experience was the moment."
Old man Tufts, here, agrees.
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I concur, mostly. When I'm experiencing a wonderful event that I want to share... I usually bypass the 140 character limit in favor of a thousand words ;-)
Is there an inherent contradiction in blogging about this? I didn't think so. Great point. I'm going to write 140 characters on a bathroom wall about this moment of reading.
There's something incredibly enjoyable when you free yourself from all technology, whether purposefully or otherwise - it can be as simple as forgetting your iPhone/Blackberry when you take the dog for a walk, or a planned departure into the deep Maine woods. Whatever the intention, the moment is monumentally different - your whole body relaxes, and you become acutely aware of your surroundings - every detail is so much significant - the sound of the birds busily chirping away to the haphazard flight of a dragonfly - everything becomes magical. It makes you wonder about where we are heading, and how we can find a better balance - or at minimum, a way to preserve the magic and beauty of life.
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I was thinking about something along these lines at the 2 wedding extravaganza I recently attended. "I'm tweeting this" was a common joke and the sound of digitally projected camera lens snaps was all over the place. The moment looks better when its not on a mini-screen attached to your camera.