I’m concerned.
A little while ago I was making my way to a class to you know, educate the leaders of tomorrow, and I overhead a girl exclaim to her companion, after (I’m assuming) the friend had just shared something funny, that she was, and I quote: “LOLing”.
LOLing?!?!?!
Now it has to be made clear that this girl was not actually in the act of laughing- audibly or otherwise, in fact she was not even smiling, she was simply exclaiming to her friend that she was “LOLing”.
Have people become so impervious to humor or any other stimuli that would normally manifest in a real active exhibition of their current sentiment, that they feel the need to not actually engage in the act of displaying emotion but prefer simply to describe it?
How (gasping for breath) can it seem logical that one exclaims they are in the act of doing something, when they are not, in fact, in the act, but simply declaring that they are?
Is this some kind of anti-tautology? (I sure do hope so as I haven’t had sound need to employ this term since studying Heidegger at university and if so I officially coin this term). Or could this phenomenon be described as a modern day preference for text jargon and description rather than action? I sure hope not as LOLing is an acronym so deprived of any vocabular* soundness that it’s almost embarrassing.
Like I said, if these are the leaders of tomorrow, I’m anxious about my future. I laugh. A lot. I’ll have you know that I quite enjoy indulging in a little giggle and I just can’t sleep easy at night knowing that the future could quite possibly see the cessation of emotional displays. I’m picturing the future like that of the novel “Children of Men” but instead of a world devoid of children, a world without emotional displays. Bah-LEAK !
* new word, hooray!
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