Out of Context
Concluding my hourly session on Instagram, I wondered about the fascination/addiction to this social media platform. I have concluded that it is a desire to live life out of context. Life is amazing in its simplest form and truly incredible to those willing to make an impact. There is frequent opportunity to make a real-life impact. We lose contact with our ability to make a positive difference. Lost in the normality of what could be described as boring and repetitive. I am greeted with a new day ---- perform a morning ritual, have the same thing for breakfast, commute to work, perform my work duties, have lunch, more work, commute again and on…. Easy to get lost in the ritual of our lives which puts a blinder on the beauty of the new day. Life would appear more exciting if I took all of the repetition and just focused on the most pleasurable which by definition is out of context.
A politician’s speech for the most part is a boring rehash of what cannot be accomplished mixed with a fanciful peppering of promises destined to be forgotten. Yet it is the out of context fantasy that we choose to embrace. The out of context lies and remaking of history are somehow easier to believe than the hard truths of reality.
Most of football whether it is American or the one the rest of the world plays is boring. Players running up and down the field with no scoring for ninety minutes or American football with time-outs and empty minutes between plays yet we are enthralled with both. We encapsulate the game in the one-minute highlight reel thus ignoring those empty minutes. We choose to embrace the game out of context.
There was a thunderstorm warning last night. Given the warning one might think that it would last the night and affect us in a significant way. What I saw was the flash of light on the horizon which was out of context with the havoc the storm caused miles away.
IG is the perfect platform for a life lived out of context. We can see the perfect female spandex impression of a person or the actor giving the perfect clever retort to the smiling host. The politician stating an idea which seems too good to be true but in context is unrealistic to accomplish. IG gives us life as we would like it ---
A perfect highlight reel of an AI invention