I am a media junky. I loooove love love love love love me some media. As an artist and a writer media is a drug, sad but true. The crazy thing about media is that regardless of how much it is meant for us to consume, it inadvertently consumes us. I create art and write from various points of existence. I am affected by the culture around me, I am labeled by the imagery around me, I am built of pieces of media that have both consciously and unconsciously become part of my identity.
#startselfexplorationparagraph1.0
I am a woman of color living in a world that meditates its color friendliness inside of white walls. I am a woman who consumes media about the deportation of who could’ve been me just a year and a half ago. I am a woman who got married after Edith Windsor defeated the ban on LGBT marriages. I am a woman who lived through a 20-year family separation (thanks to the long process of becoming “legal”.) I am a woman who rants on Instagram and Twitter. I am a woman who believes abortion and birth control is A oh-fucking-kay cause without those women of color disproportionately lose access to social mobility. I would love to make Trump art but I’m keen on not getting deported LOL. Unfortunately, in these times free speech is not so free.
#Sad. <-Trump reference.
Now you have an idea of me. Welcome aboard. See that is what the media does to you. You consume me, I consume you. I predetermine the narrative I wish to share and you tacitly accept it. That’s the scary thing about the media, the more we consume it, it consumes us, it monopolizes our narrative. It consumes us to the point that Facebook now has a “suicide algorithm” to detect when, if and just how you might wanna deactivate your account, and I don’t mean Facebook… I mean this wonderful experience of one-time consciousness we beautifully overlook called life; worst part it does it on a basis of 0’s and 1’s. Not you, 0’s and 1’s.
#existentialism #existentialcrisis #wtf
0’s and 1’s that is all you and I are in the blogosphere of media. You consumed my narrative. I consume your time. We all create our stories, put them on social media, eat our news, drink our friendships like a bag of chips and a bottle of Gatorade.
Want your mind blown? Your whole life is a giant media spectacle and you are its protagonist. Even what your eyes see is gazillions of images and scripts. Perhaps emotions are the hashtags. The filters are how we tell the stories, the faces you make and the empathy we seek for how our stories look best.
#mindblown #YouAreYourOwnPapparazzi
If you are not careful with media look at the following: Media is the chancla (slipper) and you are the cat. Be the chancla. Don't be the cat.
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