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In the commentary “Society Is Dead, We Have Retreated into
the iWorld” by Andrew Sullivan the author talks about how it seems that the
white wires of iPods have cut us off from the world. In the text he gives an
example, the author is ending his trip, when he realizes that he has left his
iPod behind. He panics, but then realizes what he has been missing out on. As
he looks around he notices the little social cues all around him, he sees just
how people interact. With this in mind I will admit it, I have headphones in right
now and they of course have music running through them in to my ears. Personally
I need to have music to work, without it I am so distracted it takes me hours
to write two sentences, although I would not call myself addicted in the same
way as Sullivan describes. I never walk with my headphones in and half the time
I couldn’t tell you where my mp3 player is. I have seen individuals like this
though, and it does affect their lives. Whereas I walk places with people and
talk to them as we go, they are in their own world the whole way, and this
makes them almost run it accidents all the time. It is not because they can’t
hear (I know many Deaf people and they don’t almost get run over by bikes every
day) it is because the music steals their attention from what matters most, people.
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