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Culture FTW
Tonight at dinner I tried to explain to my parents what L33T 2P3@K was. (I don't even know if I 'spelled' that correctly, but whatever). Well, as I suck at explaining things, I don't think I made a good point at all, but it made me think about the internet culture in general, and how my parents aren't a part of it at all. It made me kinda sad. There's so much out there that they're missing. And this is coming from someone who knows that she's not knowledgeable about a good deal of it, or rather, is probably only passingly immersed in it. (Maybe don't take that too strongly; this is a livejournal afterall.) It also reminded me about when me and Damian tried to explain to Mom the concept of farming in MMORPG's and we had to start from the very beginning with the general basics about how games like that work in general, something which I ignorantly didn't really think about having to explain before. It probably made me slightly sad because I know I don't know as much as I'd like to, and me, in my early 20's with little obligations, already feel like I'm falling behind in our ever-advancing technological-driven culture. And I wish I weren't. Maybe I'm not, and maybe I'm only doing as much as humanly possible in that I have to pick and choose sub-cultures to partake in and I just see other ones passing me by.
I wish I knew more about 'things' in general, but it takes a concerted effort in me to do things like that. In fact, the only reason why I'm even partially knowledgeable about news is because my parents turn on CBC radio all the time, and I'm living at home. I never turned on the radio except as an alarm when I was away from my parents (which I could easily blame on the shitty radio reception in the entire Guelph area, but that'd be a lying and saying I actually tried), and I quickly was enveloped in the university student 'bubble'. I wasn't in any activist groups of any type at university either, which in a way surprises me a little, but that's something else. I'm not really exiting that bubble though. That's sad. I should. I want to. I like being knowlegdeable. I like being able to have an opinion, and I really don't like having poorly backed-up opinions, and so my lack of knowledge leaves me 'at sea' about a lot of things. Maybe that's the reason why I don't particularly care so much that I know nothing about pop culture-pop culture almost by definition doesn't involve 'discussion', although that also seems to be changing as discussion itself seems to be becoming very chique. That's a good thing, although it certainly puts me lower on some scale because I'm not up on a lot of discussion topics.
Despite what Jordan thinks about my parents being cultured in their classical music preferences, (although as I've said before, my parents rarely just 'listen to music'-when I think about it, I think I got a lot of my like for music from church, but that's another topic) CBC listening, fancy clothes wearing, home-made meals and well-paying, white colored jobs, I still think he's more cultured than my parents in that he's living and partaking in more events and going out there and exposing himself to far more ideas and art in a day, through the internet, than they probably are in a week or even possibly a month. And more culture than I expose myself to too.
But I guess that's not going to change until I stop living in my head and spending hours a day in loosely directed thought. But I like doing that too much, and it seems the only way to get me to stop doing that is to force myself into action through things like having a job, so I think I'm just going to stay an uncultured clout and watch as more and more of the world passes me by.
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