“It`s peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with mobile phones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them of their self identity. It`s a shame to see them so tuned out to real life. Of course they are free to do that, as if that`s got anything to do with freedom. The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that…” Bob Dylan.
I possess a certain love-hate relationship with plenty of things. I think we all do – if we`ve got our heads turned on at all. Acceptance of things because they are new or modern is a blind faith & preserve of shallow, hollow hearted fools. Just recently I read a Dylan interview in the Sunday Times, & although Dylan is around twice my age, I have to completely echo and agree with his sentiments.
Technology has so much to offer and yet can take so much away, remove us from real experience and right now perhaps, it`s creating a generation of automaton`s who live their lives through the vile excreta of mass media. A generation that can`t read or write and with no comprehension of the ideals of individualism, courage , rebellion and struggle. We have to fight homogenisation – everywhere on every level.
