On-Locoweed

It's very difficult to get other people to understand exactly the kind of work you do, what it means to you, and how much energy and spirit you put into something, so all you can do without driving yourself crazy or feeling inadequate is to have faith in your own artistic vision and trust that what you want to say is something important to you. Consider creative projects as things that benefit your vision first and that make you happy; people will sense that self-confidence and appreciate it. Who knows, maybe they're struggling with the same thing too.

Technology is good and bad at the same time, but if you don't want to leave it at just that then let us consider the larger implications of the car crash event... Technology is replacing the natural world as the primary host of human existence, and, gradually, the modern world has become less focused on individual production and more so on mass-consumerism. This simply means that the world we share is becoming more efficient at the cost of also becoming more impersonal as technology comes to dominate our lives and actions. Technology is both good and bad; technological advancement is necessary to our world because the speed at which we are growing as a species demands it. On the other hoof, and as I mentioned before, technology has the potential to alienate humans from a perspective outside of his or her own. The reason for this dissociation, and specifically the reason for the inability for people in the given situation to react in a way other than what will serve their own interests (documenting a tragedy), is that our world today surprisingly demands less of us as thinking, feeling individuals. One may not feel as compelled to act in a situation if one's direct interests are not at stake; what I'm talking about is, in a word, "alienation." How does technology enforce a kind of alienation upon humanity, you might be frustratedly asking me or yourself? Well, here's how: Many aspects of living in this modern world, like watching television, driving to work with other commuters, or replying to a thread about technology on a pony forum, are in their own way alienating if you think that you are the only one acting and all else is being acted upon. All of these things put a lot of emphasis on ignoring other people and mistrusting that others exist and are capable of thinking or acting the same way oneself does. It's a lack of empathy. Life becomes like what in critical philosophy is called "the society of the spectacle", in which one's role as a viewer, or spectator, psychologically prevents one from being compelled to actively participate in some actions. (or something) Do you see what I'm saying, or at least some of it? Am I making sense here? I don't have all the answers, but I think about the questions a lot. The bottom line is that "technology", whatever that word means to you, is a way of life and a way to get things done that won't slow down. Technology removes aspects of decision making and responsibility in human interaction, leading to a more self-obsessed world dissociated from reality. Technology is good; technology is bad. The civilization we live in is problematic sometimes, but that doesn't make it all "bad" or, conversely, all "good".