The Queensland floods forced a decision on what I should do with my music CDs. Market projections suggest the medium only has a few years remaining before CDs go the way of cassettes and LPs. When we look at what really matters in life, is that such a bad thing?
“Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life.” ~ Victor Frankl
The philosophy of Levinas seeks to expose the meaning behind change. Like seeing medical results that reflect poor life decisions, I question whether we are prepared for what we will see if we ask the question.
Change failure rates appear to be unchanging. Perhaps we should not be looking at how we change, but focus on what we are changing towards in the first place.
Recent videos of chance encounters with starlings, eagles and whales highlight a growing global population and the increased capture of that population on video. Will the amassing of recorded history remove the need for faith? Or will the volume of knowledge make us humbly realise that we can never know all there is to know?
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While some criticise the Occupy Wall Street movement for a lack of objectives, I see the protests fit perfectly within a postmodern framework. As such, I join the conversation in deconstructing what the events mean to me.
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It is usually the player who determines whether a game is boring. After five months of playing, I find it is Foursquare that makes such a judgement on the player’s life. I have also discovered how meaningless that judgement really is.
Every man invents a story for himself – which he often, and with great cost to himself – takes to be his life. ~Max Frisch, 1972
Our stories define for us meaning and identity, or so proposes the viewpoint of narrative psychology. This is something to consider as we share our lives in the open forum of social media.
From music to blog posts, I fear we may get to a point when it has all been done before. I reflect on how our all-knowing Internet both informs us of our irrelevance and forever captures our significance.
A single tweet commencing with “Loving Lord” started me down a path questioning why we tweet, why we pray, and whether prayer has any place in Twitter.
We act based on how we perceive others see us. Symbolic interactionism helps us understand why this is the case, and how we can adjust that perception to better align with who we want to be.
