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Maybe I’m geriatric posting here but the way people choose to film every interesting moment of their lives makes me feel some type of way. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I went to the Zoo recently and I couldn’t believe how many people immediately whip out their phones to film the animals in the exhibit.

Like, if looking at images of animals on your phone was anywhere near as enjoyable as seeing them in person, why even pay to come to the fucking zoo!?

The animal you are looking at is already existing within a dead facsimile of its actual environment! It’s already like looking at an image!

Do people really go back and look at these images and videos and feel the same feeling as when they’re looking a marmoset of exotic bird right in the eyes a few feet away from them?

It feels like we’ve all become trained to whip out our phones and start filming the moment anything interesting starts happening. The way everyone prefers this mediated experience to just being in reality experiencing art or living things or a concert or whatever just makes me feel kind of bleak. To me this is a great example of what is meant when we talk about Alienation.

Anyone else agree or am I being a grumpy geriatric shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn?

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[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Do people go back and look at these things? No, almost never. If you want to take a picture and actually find yourself looking at it again at some point in the future you really need to print it out and put it in a frame or album. Digital stuff is cheap and easy to create, but that makes it huge and ephemeral and awkward to come back to later.