the death of dialogue.

When you spend two hours on a bus everyday with a dead ipod, you overhear some things (and I mean overhear...loud people).

From relationships to who drank the most beer, I have felt much like an anthropologist observing some sort of foreign people - fascinating. And out of all the trends that have been carefully noted, one sticks out amongst the pack.

The art of dialogue is dead.

Let me give you an example...

Bus dweller #1 "I recently bought a new car, it is super charged"
Bus dweller #2 "I own a super charged car, it is brand new."

What is so ridiculous about this conversation might appear very evident and laughable in print. But if you didn't notice, these two people are not conversing. Rather, they are simply stating things back and forth at eachother.

My initial reaction is that this is simply one scenario, not painting a good picture of society as a whole. But over the next few weeks my ears would perk up, only to hear once more this sort of "stating game" be played.

Now this would be easy to write off to selfishness, insecurities, and hope in perishing things. Not saying it is not those things, but maybe this is a result of technology squishing our dialogue "lol" by "lol".

who knows - i will report back soon.

peace.