i think we are getting a little self righteous...maybe

so i look around the school i work and i am surrounded by many students who classify themselves as "emo"....and another handful trying to be more emo.....
among my questions about this i must say that in the past 3 days i have had to explain to more than a few people exactly what emo even means....these are adults mind you...the kind of adults that once watched mtv but no longer see any point because it no longer plays any music, they were curious about this emo thing. i informed them with what i know. i know that emo is a style of music, generally slow and in my opinion a bit whiny. it is typically classified as a form of alternative music. the music usually sounds like the kind of thing one might slit their wrist to. but those slitting their wrist to this music would be probably doing it "because they see too much pain in their world", or "they are just so sad'. because their life is so hard. did i mention that the majority of emo music listeners are white, upper-middle class teens.

my question comes from where are they getting this poor pitiful me routine from in the first place.....a seemingly disregard for anyone else in the world because clearly they problems are the greatest....their problems of curfew and homework....really....i wish that was the main thing i worried about in my life. so what makes people really think the world spins on axis just for them. now don't get me wrong, i believe in good self esteem and i believe we should think that we are important because i believe we all are, however i also believe we need to recognize where we are standing when we look out.

for example, facebook now has a function that allows a person to know when they are being looked up. i don't even know how to understand how that is a good idea. so we're going to let people believe that someone is always looking them up so they can inturn have breakdown and feel that they have no friends when they realize they are not being constantly searched for. is their purpose to all of this. all these myspace and facebook options, letting you know what everyone you are "friends' with is currently doing, is that necessary......if we need to know what they are doing why not just ask them, with a phone call, email, or even a text message..... doesn't it make you wonder why we all care so much....why are we not existing in the reality we live in, why not make that space better instead of losing sleep over virtual space.

my other real concern is that really people thinks everyone is watching them. we all want to feel that celebrity energy i guess....in regards to what i said above, we want to think they are all watching just us....so we post and do things within a virtual space hoping that someone will be offended or pissed....why because we feel that we have power because we didn't have to say it to their face....

i would just like to say that nobody cares....most people are so concerned now with themselves they have such a hard time realizing their are other people out their with so little.....what privilege to bash someone on online, or tastelessly post pics of something...what privilege to have access to a computer able to do those things and what privilege to have the knowledge to do so....there are still places where myspace doesn't exist and would argue they are just fine without it....really...i guess what i really want to say is moderation and be appropriate, use it for what it is to be used for, not to make ourselves even more self righteous than we already are