Comments on: Well, You Got Your Attention…. http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/10/18/well-you-got-your-attention/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gaius http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/10/18/well-you-got-your-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-88310 Gaius Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:41:54 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14197#comment-88310 That is a very astute observation. Just look around. That is a very astute observation.

Just look around.

]]> By: Andrew X http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/10/18/well-you-got-your-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-88309 Andrew X Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:21:41 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14197#comment-88309 Someone, somewhere, whom I wish I could credit and link, wrote essentially the following - Since the market entry of the cheap video cam, parents spend God knows how much time videotaping their kids' big events. This writer put her camera down when she took her kids to the bus for first day of school, remembering her own mother doing so and holding her hand and soothing her and sending her on her way and all... and today every one of those parents was holding a video cam and shooting the event. In essence, they were "focusing" on their kids in a literal, technical sense.... but not an emotional one. These parents were concentrating on the camera, not their kids. And what that camera produced <i>became</i> the event.... not, um..... the event itself. And what has now happened? Well, those kids have grown up. And just look around. Very profound observation, I thought. Someone, somewhere, whom I wish I could credit and link, wrote essentially the following -

Since the market entry of the cheap video cam, parents spend God knows how much time videotaping their kids’ big events. This writer put her camera down when she took her kids to the bus for first day of school, remembering her own mother doing so and holding her hand and soothing her and sending her on her way and all… and today every one of those parents was holding a video cam and shooting the event. In essence, they were “focusing” on their kids in a literal, technical sense…. but not an emotional one. These parents were concentrating on the camera, not their kids. And what that camera produced became the event…. not, um….. the event itself.

And what has now happened? Well, those kids have grown up.

And just look around.

Very profound observation, I thought.

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