Long live the Reader.
I have often wondered why people write.
I don't think its to tell a story or sing a song, or comment on a
place or a bite barely swallowed. Sometimes I think that people write
because the can't talk, or are not able to. But then again the sheer
absence of mute writers makes my point null and void...quite like
their vocal chords. Must be a vocal thing then.
I am never a polite speaker or much of
a fan when it came to rather concise and non abusive writing. Maybe
its an acquired taste. Or maybe I lack that part that makes such
communication possible.
Look at us. Look at our generation. How
many people read? Or even pretend to nowadays? If no one is reading
then why do we write? Who is at the other end of the rainbow?
People make writing sound like a fairy
tale. Every time they tell me that I should write down what I just
said its simply too profound to be lost in a drunken haze and crushed
under a hangover the next day, I ask why? You wont read it. I said it
so i wont read it. Sure as hell no one alive will read it.
The reader is dead. That is the fact I
hate the most about this world. No one reads. Even literature has now
become a fad to be made into an app and enjoyed on the next I phone.
Which few will buy so again the reading app is pointless too.
I sometimes fear that one day I will
never be able to feel that page, rough and smooth in the same touch.
I will never read the words that shape from the coarse to the refined
and brought out in the world on that page. The book with a cover that
might hint or guide or blatantly sell through the love, sex and rock
roll ideology sold by songs that now once in a while roll around in
the background of our favourite new show or movie.
God I will miss the comics.
The Reader is dead. Long live the
Reader.
And Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie
Sheen on Two and a Half Men and remains running even in season 10 of the show! So maybe even the viewer is dead too.
We are a doomed generation. Dreadfully so...
