The bus is a terribly depressing place. "What a miserable fucking place that is", in the words of Jeremy Hotz. It seems people on the bus are very afraid of any sort of contact, between strangers. If you dare look in to the eyes of your fellow man, they will look away. Humanity doesn't seem human anymore. This seems to be an ongoing trend within the corporate controlled matrix. No human contact, that person is probably a criminal or a rapist! If anyone looks differently than the majority, they are not worthy of contact. But who makes us think we are surrounded by less than human beings? The media and major corporations are constantly convincing us to stay scared, seperate, angry, depressed, and not satisfied with ourselves.
I'm tired of the dehumanizing of society. Public transportation should be vibrant. Instead, people only talk to their social group and keep their heads down. Trained magnificently through public "education" and television. Humans are afraid of humans. Sometimes I think we are just herded beings like sheep. But, sheep need a sheep dog to police them. Humans are trained to police themselves. I wish there was a track of Danny Shine playing on the bus. It would drastically improve the ride.
Everything is OK is my manifesto. Like Danny says, Everything is absolutely OK, including you.
Yours,
Jarrett
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I kinda agree.. Like you said, I think this is more predominant in metro cities. I guess it's coz city folks see and experience so much coz of the constant exposure and surveillance that doing so in a kind of public-cum-private time in the bus seems unnecessary.. Kind of like how we see ads everywhere but we scan them and erase out from our memory quickly.. the irrelevant or unattractive ones especially. Maybe it is to do with the socio-cultural saturation point a city dweller reaches after which interacting with strangers isn't FUN. The fact that this kinda thing happens with so many people living in city makes it a city thing and hence the multiplicity of the effect.
ReplyDeleteWe are becoming emotionally sterile. Sounds harsh but somewhat reflects the reality. Scary, isn't it?
Yes, we should be scared of having no emotion instead of the other way around.
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