I know, long title, but it is the best way to describe what i have been walking around and thinking about the last year or so.
The only reason why i haven't put it down in writing before, is because i find it hard to formulate, but now I've decided to give it a try.
Two evenings ago i read a sequence in a book called "The Language of Things". He wrote about how the archetypes have changed throughout time. One of the archetypes he wrote about was the phone, and how it not only has changed form in type of design, but also how the phone has changed when it comes to it's place in the home.
From being an object with an important place in the home, hanging on the wall in the hall way, to standing on its own little table, an object that was one of the few ways to keep in contact with the outer world, an object to be handled with care, to now be an object that we take for granted.
These days a big part of the Nordic people don't even own a home phone, instead we walk around with our own private portable phone, with our own number, being able to reach and being reach 24 hours a day. The fact is that most people switch phones as fast as the phone company gives us the possibility.
While reading that i started to compare the way that we treat and use our phones, with the way that we treat and use people around us.
Not only do i feel that we take our phones as much for granted as we take or granted the people around us, but i also started thinking about how much of a use-abuse-and-toss-away kind of society we now live in both when it comes to the object and people in our every day life.
Maybe it is just me, but i feel like a big part of the society we live in today have forgot how to appreciate and care for people and things around us.
Look at how many things that we feel like we can not live without (like this computer of mine), but still are willing and urging to change as fast as a newer version comes arrives. What does that say about us?
Maybe it is too late at night/too early in the morning for me to make any sense, but i hope that after reading this in a couple of hours, i will be able to formulate this thoroughly thinking of the fact that i have not even gotten around to the way we live. But i will get there, that much i can promise you
Now it is time for me to go to bed
Sleep tight
M
