Broken Pattern

    I miss the days when people knew how to socialize. They’re the fairy tales that I’ve been forced to dream about. Obviously you have to blame technology, in part, for the way things are now. We’re used to talking to each other through electronic text more than actual conversation. That’s why we find ourselves at a stand-off of silence when two people meet for the first time, or even the hundredth. Why is it that we can talk for hours as long as it involves virtual hours when talking face to face is so hard to do?

    I’d love to be able to walk up to someone and say hi, this is my name, now tell me about yourself, but even when I do they have nothing to say. I’ve coined Conversation Manipulation, which is an act whereby an individual can force and produce conversation amongst a party of people and command the conversation to not only drive it in the direction he/she wants, but can also supply the catalysts to receive the responses he/she desires. The problem is, after years or months of use, it gets boring and trivial. You can only play puppeteer for so long.

    So where are we at? Stale mate. I’m too tired to do the same old shit I’m used to doing, and no ones coming out of the woods to show me anything new. The only thing I can look forward to is when they start installing usb drives into people. Maybe once that happens we can communicate electronically amongst ourselves, or maybe some software company will develop a program to put social back into socialize.