Writing and reading and listening — and trying to decipher meaning in a half of day of quiet in my house. Came upon this piece. . . again. . . that I had almost forgot about – But as another pop star burns out her candle- I was thinking about how our limitless consumption of media right now (she says whilst in the midst of limitless consumption) is constanly changing our discourse on ourselves, and our communities – and the world around us. The revolution will be televised, and then YouTubed, and reblogged, and chopped up in to tiny bits of edible sound bites. And like JaySmooth, I wonder what this means for the tiny people we teach, and parent, and nurture - what this fully televised world will hold for them.
Feb22
I think we are ALL so inundated with everything… breaking news, ticker tape, disasters, war, pop stars, twitter, fb etc. Sometimes I just have to switch off. Maybe children, born into this media message overload will cope better…it is like the ever present background noise in their lives.
Perhaps, like for me how I always had the tv on in the background -