Wednesday, May 02, 2012

the isolation of technology


I'm at the park yesterday with my daughter Dylan and I'm not necessarily looking for a conversation with someone but I also don't want to hear someone on their phone having a meeting the whole time I'm there.  My wife tells me not to judge and that I'm hypercritical since I'm on my phone talking to a director about an upcoming video shoot for my band Moon State.  I am not pointing the finger here.  I do it as well.   We use our phones in public to avoid interacting with other people.  Or it's just an escape mechanism. As I watch former PR girls turned-stay-at-home momma's clutching their iPhone, I wonder what parenting would have been like without technology.  In a more primitive society, would we pay closer attention to our children?  The thought of this makes me want to move to a farm with my family somewhere Upstate.

DZ


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