Strangers Among Us

[rogerdr]

A generation has grown up without knowledge of true solace. Electronic boxes buzz in their ears with the voices of their friends, always available. Always. Their dramas are immediate and acute, their romances as fleeting and delicate as damselflies. Their stories are plotwise dance music; scene-to-scene, they bounce through wafer-thin dialogs...

Comments

[subdermal]

I'm assuming that's yours? Very poignant.

>Their dramas are immediate and acute,
As the father of a teenaged daughter, I can attest to this.

[rogerdr]

Thanks. I'm not sure what I meant by "flowers" at the end, since I was talking about hot bee-on-bee action. Perhaps the mesmerizing variety of things that people can buy, from food to cars to software apps. I thought my generation was addicted to material things back in the `80s. I didn't know shit compared to this. Some days, when I have extra money in my bank, I feel like Dorothy walking out of her sepia farmhouse into Oz.

[subdermal]

>Thanks. I'm not sure what I meant by "flowers" at the end, since I was talking about hot bee-on-bee action

Heh. I assumed you were talking about the fleeting romances and the resultant dramas. But the vast array of nearly-indistinguishable consumer trinkets also works :D

[majortom_thecat]

Have you seen things like this? http://secondlife.com/shop/ I can't imagine.

[majortom_thecat]

Very nice!

[rogerdr]

Thank you.