checking out.

"we have become contemporary landfills. a bulemic society of sorts" -- professor gal.

my photography professor is amazing...anywho lol.

...so in photo we were speaking on the state of our society and how information is no longer retained. we are force fed millions of images a day, and our minds just cant latch on to much. so professor gal presented this idea of us being contemporary landfills. our minds hold nothing but waste. we know all the lyrics to the songs on our ipods and can almost automatically recite a line from a tv show or movie, but dont know anything useful and worth knowing...

so then the issue of "checking out" came into play. to escape our own realities, we watch tv and "check out"...my peers and i came to the conclusion that checking out can be potentially detrimental. one can get into the habit of "checking out" to the point where they don't recognize their own reality anymore.

...so one of my classmates mentions that she did an experiment once. she didnt watch tv or movies for a week, just to see the difference it would make in her habits. she found that she connected with herself more because there was nothing to deter or distract her from finding herself. she wrote more, read more, and just understood herself a little better in that one week.

my tv broke last summer, and i have yet to replace it lol. once you dont have it, you realize how much you really dont need it. just something to think about...