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Welcome to the era where everyone is hungry for likes, reposts, testimonials, raves, and pokes. This is when a lot of people become so superficial, when that much needed promotion of one’s work is relatively rampant in social networking sites, begging and buying to be noticed through a simple link or an invitation to visit what they have to say. It’s pathetic as Shalani Soledad’s hosting can be.
We like it when people like what we say even though saying or writing it is against or not fully based on one’s discernment. We are all fixated to the idea of belongingness in this lonely world, where conformity had been the basis of good citizenship, procurement of licenses, and grading systems in schools. These are the times where almost everyone thinks alike, act alike, and speak alike. Should one dare to say otherwise, persecution will sure follow. We have been clones, poets, speakers of everyone we see around us, copying little by little one’s beliefs and values and assimilating it to ourselves day by day.
We are the people who are glued to the standardization and expectations of the society. Truly, this has lead to the deterioration of our creative faculties and death of rational thinking, accepting all information there is to procure, holding them as truths without even processing what was even said. We have been consumers for so long, it time we do otherwise.
We live in an era where the consumers dictate to the writers what they want to read, writing to please the audience. This somehow concerns me, when was the last time the writer wrote to please himself? I believe we must do something to revive the glorious ways of thinking that led man to its present state.
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Most of the points you've stated are true. Kinda sad to think about it but this is the way of things nowadays. And these are what others take advantage of.
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ReplyDeleteRj, I really find your piece very interesting as this is something I have been pondering on for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteI think people like to feel they matter, that their work provoked a reaction from someone, and not necessarily liking it. You can disagree with it, what's important is it made you think, made you feel something.
As for conformity, in a way, yes we do conform. But perhaps not entirely? Just by reading other people's blogs would show that there is diversity of thought in this world.
There are many writers who write and champion different ideas. So perhaps, creativity is not as dead you think.
Cheers. =)
Kane
This is also something that I have been thinking nowadays. You captured those ideas that some have been wanting to say and made them one in this entry.
ReplyDeleteI concur with Kane. I would like to believe that there remains some who are entitled to say anything no matter how many dissents they will get from the wanting majority. This strengthens our social media experience.
I hope I am on the right track. =)
a BIG warm LIKE for this post!
ReplyDeleteit surely got me thinking. I went down memory lane (blog archive) and realized how I write about the things I like back when I still have no readers. a lot has truly changed *sigh*
I was kind of wrong to generalize my ideas to all bloggers. True, there are really ones that are bursting with creativity and are loaded with ever-original ideas however their number is slowly declining. And for those blogs who dare to say otherwise, you have earned my respect.
ReplyDeleteWrite to express, not impress <--parang ganun lang dapat diba? ahw ^^
ReplyDeleteToo true. I know lots of bloggers who, when they got a following, suddenly changed their way of thinking. Pa-impress masyado.
ReplyDelete@sendo - tomoh! :P
ReplyDelete@ela - well, i haven't really noticed quite a number as you have but I'm sure this phenomena happens. Or maybe nagiba lang tlga mga tao, as they are dynamic and every changing.