addicted to media – collect to the max
a normal night during my week, sitting in front of my laptop and looking for things to download. games, music, tv series…basically everything. but what’s the point of downloading all this stuff? many of the things i loaded haven’t even been very interesting to me. if it sounds right…go get it. rss feeds, bookmarked blogs, tweets…and so i ended up watching the status bar of my downloads going further and further.
what’s interesting for a human beeing to have a huge load of media to consume? is it the need for information? is it the urge of having something to whatch when times are “worse”? an old desire of collecting which we inherited from our ancestors?
i think it’s the will to collect information. if i have information, whatsoever, i know something. and that feels like i achieved something. i believe it comes from an ancient behaviour of getting an advantage compared to others, in the same way as staying in contact with your conspecifics. taking part and enjoying media and information, means taking part in society. because the media is the product of this society.