I want to show an article that appeared in the newspaper El Espectador last Thursday, September 17, 2009, written by Maestro Enrique Serrano:
"Particularly striking is the speed with which new generations are bored. Due to the expiration furious that everything has today, there is nothing that can endure to get their followers to admire the strength with which they were embedded in individual and collective soul passions in the past. The thirst for novelty, seemingly never satisfied no time to stop at the pleasure of tasting all that offered a provincial, predictable and relatively slow. There was little music, some movies, a few books, few dances, a few performances, few brands. Television is produced locally in small quantities. The idols were the same for all and attracted several generations at the same time which were connected so unconscious and free. The "fever" became true passions that could last years.
Today, however, thanks to the internet can be downloaded in one day so many videos, songs, movies, books and even pictures of the past that we thought lost forever. And yet you hear people say to teens who are bored because they "have nothing to do." Many reasons can be adduced to explain the frantic development of this phenomenon, the spleen of today is everywhere and is all the time. Fill any space, any surface covered with its mantle the same, nothing particular or remarkable enough to him.
It's just obvious that the pace in which we live is not the same as before. Technological change has had everything to do with the appearance of this eternal restlessness, anxiety testimony never healed and expression of a trend that leads to discouragement to what, under other conditions, would produce the opposite effect. To take advantage of the invasion of images and sounds, it requires enthusiasm and endless patience, of which this period of history seems to lack.
For teens today everything is "normal." Every thing seemed to have many qualities the individual has lost or have been hopelessly reduced to one. Normal in young minds is the undifferentiated, as understandable and even natural, but it certainly does not match what used to be thought of as normal, ie predictability.
However, the fact be looking for something interesting in everything new and has been that these generations are much more bold and determined that any of the above. The amount of information they can access is significantly higher, and who know how to use reach great heights in the appropriation of the world. Meanwhile, and without rest, boredom reigns among the young and blessed curse and proud of it, so why can not there-or who can amuse or touch them, and less captive to the excitement, without dropping the same day in the expiration rampant. Stronger than it has been the overabundance of information
But really no need to worry, this is "normal."
