Two post's in a single day. I came across this and I had to share.
The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge —broadband tipping the Web from text to image; social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider—the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves—by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I cant help but fall prey to the need to be visible. At least Im ware of it the masses dont even know they are doing it Lupe Fiasco one of my more liked music on itunes came up with a book club I will try my best to read the books on his list an any book that I come across that just looks interesting, BoW (book of the Week) well the picture is worth a thousand words. WAKE UP!
