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CHANGE OR NOT?

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."    Cicero 43 BCE
BCOF: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Do you agree or disagree? Do you think everyone is writing these days- a book, short stories, poetry or memoirs as Cicero indicates. Does this impact us as writers ourselves? Are we one of Cicero's everyone's? What's make us different?
Blog City Prompt: In this time with the internet so easily accessible, how do you determine what is worth reading when it is so easy for people to publish whatever? What criteria is important to you when you read online articles, stories?

Everything’s changing all the time, however, the behavior associated with human nature remains the same (in one form or another.)  What is changing is the SPEED of change. The new acceleration of time to the future is fast, if not instantaneous. Some things are totally new, never seen in our world before and they don’t even change, they disappear and are replaced. Notice that action has not changed.

Now about writing? Cicero says, “Everyone’s writing.” The difference is everyone’s writing more, and faster!  A large part of Earth society is writing with their thumbs on a tiny keyboard using abbreviations, causing an evolution of language. And then there are many others who have replaced using words with instant photos. I mean, why write about a event if you can show everything about it with a couple of snapshots or a three-minute video.

In this way we are different from Cicero’s time. Information is instant---or it can be deleted just as fast before it reaches you. (How did she ever delete 30,000 emails before anyone could see them?)

I believe this new method of recording and passing information is an obsession, and with that, Cicero’s observation still holds true. And we all know about the children.

Don’t blink...you’ll miss it! >>>iggy

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