Stranger: Do you have anything interesting to say?
You: I'm sure i do
Stranger: Shoot then
Stranger: *cough
You: Hold on..I need a minute to type.
Stranger: Oh I would not want to rush you.
You: Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as Pasteur's microbes or as great as Einstein's universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days. Glued to computer and tv screens, we have forgotten how to look at the natural world, the original instructor on how to be curious about detail.
Stranger: That is not true.
Stranger: Plenty of people do it
Stranger: Just not the majority.
You: Yes. But it is true in some cases. However that was just a generalization.
Stranger: Plus, the truth is in the details.
You: Yes.
Stranger: Do you watch a lot of TV?
You: No i do not.
Stranger: Any at all?
You: Not really. I do sometimes. But I don't watch certain shows.
Stranger: See- I gave it up entirely.
Stranger: Just a waste of time really.
Stranger: Serves no practical purpose.
You: This can be true.
Stranger: Even the history channel.
You: However, there are things that can be learned from the form of media.
You: But that information can be found elsewhere.
Stranger: Televised media?
Stranger: Is that a joke?
You: Not really.
Stranger: Do you own a TV?
You: Not personally. There is one in my parents house though.
Stranger: Ok.
Stranger: Watch the news sometimes.
You: Why should I watch the news?
Stranger: It always follows a pattern.
Stranger: Observation of phenomenon.
You: It has its way of hooking viewers.
Stranger: They always show a few crisis stories, then a mildly boring or semi-comical story.
Stranger: Yeah.
You: It's all geared on gaining more viewers.
You: Which causes the view to stray from the basis of the story.
Stranger: When people think of subliminal messaging they think of hidden words.
You: But it isn't always that.
Stranger: Usually it is just the camera angle or film techniques.
You: The angle changes at least every ten or fifteen seconds. Your lucky if it even takes that long.
Stranger: watch a commercial. The shot changes every 3.5 seconds like clockwork
You: Always music playing behind sitcoms/soap operas.
You: Nothing is really real anymore.
Stranger: In children's commercials it changes as much as every 1.2 seconds.
Stranger: Nothing was real to start with.
You: True.
Stranger: Artist use lies to tell the truth right?
You: Explain.
Stranger: But there is no art.
Stranger: Explain?
Stranger: Ok.
Stranger: The novel 1984 was used to indicate the possibility of dystopia.
Stranger: It was fake.
Stranger: A lie. It really did not happen.
You: But that was a fictional book.
Stranger: Yeah.
Stranger: I'm not saying it is a bad thing.
Stranger: My point is that television is serialized.
Stranger: There is no art.
Stranger: You can still find it in film.
Stranger: Some film.
Stranger: Ok.
You: But television isn't necessarily art though.
You: I don't know how you got that.
Stranger: Then what is it. It is not true.
Stranger: And it is not a good lie.
Stranger: So what does that leave?
You: But what does the truth of television have to do with it being art?
Stranger: Nothing.
Stranger: I'm just saying.
Stranger: It is either truth or art.
Stranger: If it is neither than it does not matter.
You: Can it not be both?
Stranger: Yes it could.
Stranger: Do you read much?
You: What constitutes "much?"
Stranger: What was the last thing you read?
Stranger: And why?
You: I'm in the middle of reading now.
Stranger: Ok the book before that one.
You: Read a book right before.
You: Bought three books on Monday.
Stranger: Ok what were they?
You: Listography, The Boy and the Dog are Sleeping, How to be an Explorer of the World, So B. It, Love is a Mix Tape.
Stranger: Never heard of them.
Stranger: Any of them.
Stranger: Non-fiction or fiction?
You: Non-fiction.
Stranger: What is the one you are reading about?
You: How music has the ability to bring people to other places, and how it can trigger a person's memory just by playing a certain melody or harmony.
Stranger: I take it you have experienced this?
You: Yes.
Stranger: Elaborate.
Stranger: That was a verb.
Stranger: As in- I would like to know more about you experience.
You: A lot of good memories I have had have recently been brought back due to me finding certain mixed tapes. And I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard each song.
Stranger: Really?
Stranger: Like you hear a song and you remember the place and time?
You: Yes. Even the month and time of day.
Stranger: Do you remember what you were thinking at the time also?
You: Sort of. I remember the general feeling of the time.
Stranger: That's cool.
Stranger: And I'm not just saying that.
That was a recent conversation of mine. The music part at the end isn't really necessary, however that's where the conversation went.
I was just surprised at the persons ignorance. He posed an argument, however he could not support it. Maybe I am wrong though.
Thoughts?
Stranger: but what is interesting...
Stranger: you are stranger
Stranger: but...
Stranger: i am stranger
Stranger: so...
Stranger: we are the same person
Stranger: and yet...
Stranger: i am you
Stranger: but...
Stranger: you are not i
Stranger: you are you...
Stranger: but then...
Stranger: if i am you
Stranger: then you must be i...
Stranger: no
Stranger: we are very much the same now
Stranger: we are i
Stranger: so how am i doing today?
