blue and sentimental

 

“Blue and sentimental” is the title of the song that’s currently playing on the Spotify playlist called Jazz Relax. It’s the first time I’ve listened to this playlist and I thought that the title of the current piece sounds like a good blogpost theme. Blue—in a calm, relaxed sense versus feeling blue. Sentimental—selectively. Selectively sentimental. Aren’t we all? It’s fall and the temperature is dropping. Have yet to experience solid precipitation but it was foggy the past few days. I like this time of the year, because it’s very open to interpretation. One may think that the warm colours of transitioning foliage is mood boosting, yet another may feel a sense of dread whenever the sun sets and the fog accompanied by artificial night lights appear like the perfect setting for scary supernatural activity. For me, it’s the cool weather, warm clothing, and seasonal gastronomic fare and beverages. Count on me to romanticize anything I want to in my mind.

I quite enjoy this “away from the human and bot mosh pit of behavioural programming (reduced social media).” The expression: “like a moth to a flame” comes to mind. We’re all moths, aren’t we? The attractiveness of social media is around the desire for power in a variety of forms. Power without accountability. Power with plausible deniability. Power in affecting those who possess what we don’t have. Or power in attention and influence. Of course, we’ve reduced our definition of power in terms of a different currency—the currency of a comment, reply, thumbs up, views, etc. Though I think those have an actual monetary conversion after all.