Wireless Earbud Dilution
I have bought my first pair of wireless earbuds a few days ago. I got it on sale for 30 dollars, some Chinese brand on amazon but they work very well. All I was looking for was something that just played audio in my ear, I am not picky about the perfect auditory and bass balance, long battery life, random extra features and more. Having a little thing that can play audio in you ear at any time is enough of a massive luxury to appreciate but I will get into that later. It feels strange having a pair of these things, in middle school when airpods came out, we saw it as a sort of cringy and brain dead to actually want to buy these expensive little white things for the main reasons of status and the minor convenience of not having a cord. It seems so silly looking at it from that time. The only reasons this sentiment has slightly changed for me is how much people have started to give into this and take it for granted, how much more inconvenient manufacturers have made wanting to just stick with a cord and the benefits in certain circumstances to having these things.
People have began to use these wireless earbuds so regularly that they incorporate it as the background noise of almost everything they do. I was walking through a parking lot today with my toque on, listening to music and saw how to other people, I just look like someone walking and doing nothing but to me, I am listening to music and they can't tell. This seems extremely and dangerously filled with opportunity. It seems so easy to incorporate this into every part of your life, not being able to do anything like walk through a parking lot without wanting to listen to music in your own little world. It will teach us to not be able to appreciate just the basic liminal and transitional moments of life, the little spaces between an A event and a B event. We already do this enough as it is, fill our car rides with auditory content, watch shows while we eat, watch things at night until we fall asleep, every single moment is 'complemented' with music or a podcast or whatever it may be. The sad thing is that it is shortening peoples attention spans and humble appreciation for moments like these, to be stuck with your thoughts (which people dont want). Even when we do have these opportunities, we usually decide to only listen to stimulatory music and things that do not really benefit you, when we could be listening to educational things, sermons, learning languages, etc.. The advancement of technology in these ways makes you think that it will be such an amazing opportunity for you to expand your life, productivity, etc. but when this technology is actually put into work into your life, is it really always helping you. How many earthly hours have you wasted through the internet? How much has life been diluted my dear friend?
Years ago, they started to remove the headphone jack on phones for absolutely no reason, it does not make any sense to do this, bluetooth seemed like an extra luxury that you could use if you wanted to but if those were dead or you simply wanted to use wired, more common headphones, or even use the aux in the car, you could. They forced bluetooth to be the norm, you wouldn't remove the usb ports on a computer to force people to use bluetooth headphones, keyboard and mouse? It doesn't seem like a logical thing that they would do, but they started to remove it. I believe it was apple that did this, anytime I am reminded of anything apple as a company has done in the past 10 years, I shake my head in disappointment. Their initial contributions were mindblowingly revolutionary, the iPod, iPhone changed everything about our lives. When I heard of their airpods, how much they limit their software and hardware (the worst thing about them), their horrible privacy issues, fragile screens, overpriced cheese grater computers, garbage account systems, expired sense of supremacy, their vr thing, normalizing removing random things from their phones (headphone jack) and all else, it constantly adds to the long list of reasons to not like this darn company. I used to use and iPhone, then the screen smashed one day and I realized the cultural insanity that these iPhones that are extremely fragile, expensive and have bad batteries was and is completely absurd sentiment to have. Enough about apple. Because of them and companies mindlessly following in their footsteps, my phone now (a google pixel 4 with graphene os on it), has no headphone jack and the darn dongle not only don't always work (especially if you are messing with custom os') but also get caught on everything and are just another thing to carry.
I remember in those grade 8/9 days, listening to a lot of Oliver Tree, Joji, Jeremy Soule, acting like a complete fool with all my mannerisms. I had a pair of great Bose bluetooth headphones that I would use a lot outside of school to listen to music on my Spotify family account. I can remember times when I would just walk around with my family going on trips or whatever with my silly headphones listening to music, it feels so cringy to look back on. I feel that because of knowing what its like to be that age and simply making the consious decision to try and 'compliment' these moments with music I like. When I say 'compliment', what I truly mean is dilution, bland and grey, sacrificing quality over quantity. I can recount the surprisingly distant memories of the long summer before high school when I went to visit my grandparents. I had this basement room with a big bed (I was used to the single bed at home). It was cozy and cool and had a large duvet (a cool and large duvet over your body on a summer night is the best). One night I was listening to Wings of Kynareth by Jeremy Soule under this duvet, I felt warm because of sun exposure during the day but cool because of this basement room temperature and the duvet, I felt half awake, ethereal and distant from what was physical. The audio quality of the Bose headphones were amazing. Laying out in this bed on that night was probably the most relaxed I have ever felt, or can distinct from other times where I was probably more relaxed. I think what made this moment so relaxing was rare was that I was not intending that originally, when we are always seeking the way to make a moment the most fulfilling, always trying to dilute moments with backround audio, we lose a lot of the magic of the reality of lifes moments. The more you try in this case, the less of the result you will get. Do not be so fixated on making every single moment diluted, those true moments where things compliment eachother and a beautiful experience is had comes naturally. When we listen to an album a bunch of times in a certain period of time, then a year later we revisit the same album, we aren't reminded of the music that we were listening to but that time of our life. The moment is not dependant on the little thing playing in your ear, the little thing playing in your eye is entirely dependant on any moment we decide to incorporate it into, if we get that flipped, if we exceed we begin to dilute.
how I want to be careful I have to hold great caution in how I use these. On one of the first days of having these, I tried to see what it was like to be one of those people of my time, sitting in math class with one earbud in as casual as ever. It was very strange and sort of funny to be in class with vaporwave or whatever playing in the background as if nothing has changed. It feels sort of overwhelming, why train your brain to be even more clingy to the senses of life, what does that help you acheive besides mindlessly chasing each moment to be more 'filling'. All throughout high school I have witnessed people go throughout their whole days with an earbud in, the girls could hide it under their hair so that noone would know. Its like people want to have another tab of consiousness they can focus on whenever the gift of physical life is too menial for them. We must be in constant acknowledgement of how much we have, be grateful, do not mix up grace with what you believe you deserve. Be constantly mindful in how you use this type of technology that can so easily drag you into your own little world, a world where you are god (this is all we have ever wanted in our hearts). If a pair of earbuds makes you easily descend into constant sensory desires, then you have not remembered to be humble, grateful and constantly mindful of your subconsious intentions of how you use this technology. If even then it still continues to steer your focus away from a life of actual living, then hide these things or throw them away. The youtube took away too much time from me on my phone so I took the time to figure out how to block it. I do not want to habitually pull out my earbuds to get a little hit of stimulation whenever I am on break, walking for a few minutes to the next destination, etc., we cannot allow this to happen to ourselves. If we show no care for how we use technology, we will be trapped in a life of indulgence (the constant consummation), our brains corrupted by the massive amounts of information we try to cram in everyday. Imagine a person only years ago hearing a song (any song, not even one that they would necessarily prefer) and being awed by it. We have so greatly diminished our appreciation for what we get to listen to, to watch, to read. We have chosen quantity over quality in its most extreme sense. With self control and those three things I mentioned earlier, getting earbuds won't casually drift you towards further isolation and escape into a digitalized world where the only things that confront you are the thing you expect and want to confront you. We will and must stay on the right path.
In owning these, I see how almost everyone always walks around with their own little thing playing to only them, it roughly resembles a micro version of the people on the Axiom in WALL-E. They all go around on their own little screen, all doing their own thing in their own little world. These do have their benefits though and this brief moment of excitement for when these shine with simplistic convienience in undiluted manner will not last long so I must elaborate. These connected to my laptop easily and the audio quality is great. These will work very well for when I am washing the dishes or doing something of that manner as I can then listen to an RC Sproul sermon or something in the backround. This does not mean that everytime I do something like that I NEED to use my earbuds, it is like eating a steak meal with wine, you wouldn't eat every meal with wine or another drink like it but do it sometimes as a controlled little treat from time to time, you don't have to be an alcoholic about it. It will be cool to try and make a phone call with these, I can look like an insane person talking to myself. I see people that do this sometimes and I always think they are talking to me, walking by people on the sidewalk who will just blankly stare towards you while talking as if he was talking to you when they are really on a personal phone call, insane technology, all in moderation. It is as if when you begin to embrace these luxaries as the normal, you begin to take them for granted, I am sucked in now...
Creation Date: February 21st, 2025 - *cue slightly audible rap rop beat in tha backround: waxy earbud, monster enrgy drink, spend 70 dolair on foodaday, vape ere'day, cantont wait to go home at the end of along day and watch sum kwebelkop ishosped Awesome youuber... (all i do is watch! hip hip!)
I have bought my first pair of wireless earbuds a few days ago. I got it on sale for 30 dollars, some Chinese brand on amazon but they work very well. All I was looking for was something that just played audio in my ear, I am not picky about the perfect auditory and bass balance, long battery life, random extra features and more. Having a little thing that can play audio in you ear at any time is enough of a massive luxury to appreciate but I will get into that later. It feels strange having a pair of these things, in middle school when airpods came out, we saw it as a sort of cringy and brain dead to actually want to buy these expensive little white things for the main reasons of status and the minor convenience of not having a cord. It seems so silly looking at it from that time. The only reasons this sentiment has slightly changed for me is how much people have started to give into this and take it for granted, how much more inconvenient manufacturers have made wanting to just stick with a cord and the benefits in certain circumstances to having these things.
People have began to use these wireless earbuds so regularly that they incorporate it as the background noise of almost everything they do. I was walking through a parking lot today with my toque on, listening to music and saw how to other people, I just look like someone walking and doing nothing but to me, I am listening to music and they can't tell. This seems extremely and dangerously filled with opportunity. It seems so easy to incorporate this into every part of your life, not being able to do anything like walk through a parking lot without wanting to listen to music in your own little world. It will teach us to not be able to appreciate just the basic liminal and transitional moments of life, the little spaces between an A event and a B event. We already do this enough as it is, fill our car rides with auditory content, watch shows while we eat, watch things at night until we fall asleep, every single moment is 'complemented' with music or a podcast or whatever it may be. The sad thing is that it is shortening peoples attention spans and humble appreciation for moments like these, to be stuck with your thoughts (which people dont want). Even when we do have these opportunities, we usually decide to only listen to stimulatory music and things that do not really benefit you, when we could be listening to educational things, sermons, learning languages, etc.. The advancement of technology in these ways makes you think that it will be such an amazing opportunity for you to expand your life, productivity, etc. but when this technology is actually put into work into your life, is it really always helping you. How many earthly hours have you wasted through the internet? How much has life been diluted my dear friend?
Years ago, they started to remove the headphone jack on phones for absolutely no reason, it does not make any sense to do this, bluetooth seemed like an extra luxury that you could use if you wanted to but if those were dead or you simply wanted to use wired, more common headphones, or even use the aux in the car, you could. They forced bluetooth to be the norm, you wouldn't remove the usb ports on a computer to force people to use bluetooth headphones, keyboard and mouse? It doesn't seem like a logical thing that they would do, but they started to remove it. I believe it was apple that did this, anytime I am reminded of anything apple as a company has done in the past 10 years, I shake my head in disappointment. Their initial contributions were mindblowingly revolutionary, the iPod, iPhone changed everything about our lives. When I heard of their airpods, how much they limit their software and hardware (the worst thing about them), their horrible privacy issues, fragile screens, overpriced cheese grater computers, garbage account systems, expired sense of supremacy, their vr thing, normalizing removing random things from their phones (headphone jack) and all else, it constantly adds to the long list of reasons to not like this darn company. I used to use and iPhone, then the screen smashed one day and I realized the cultural insanity that these iPhones that are extremely fragile, expensive and have bad batteries was and is completely absurd sentiment to have. Enough about apple. Because of them and companies mindlessly following in their footsteps, my phone now (a google pixel 4 with graphene os on it), has no headphone jack and the darn dongle not only don't always work (especially if you are messing with custom os') but also get caught on everything and are just another thing to carry.
I remember in those grade 8/9 days, listening to a lot of Oliver Tree, Joji, Jeremy Soule, acting like a complete fool with all my mannerisms. I had a pair of great Bose bluetooth headphones that I would use a lot outside of school to listen to music on my Spotify family account. I can remember times when I would just walk around with my family going on trips or whatever with my silly headphones listening to music, it feels so cringy to look back on. I feel that because of knowing what its like to be that age and simply making the consious decision to try and 'compliment' these moments with music I like. When I say 'compliment', what I truly mean is dilution, bland and grey, sacrificing quality over quantity. I can recount the surprisingly distant memories of the long summer before high school when I went to visit my grandparents. I had this basement room with a big bed (I was used to the single bed at home). It was cozy and cool and had a large duvet (a cool and large duvet over your body on a summer night is the best). One night I was listening to Wings of Kynareth by Jeremy Soule under this duvet, I felt warm because of sun exposure during the day but cool because of this basement room temperature and the duvet, I felt half awake, ethereal and distant from what was physical. The audio quality of the Bose headphones were amazing. Laying out in this bed on that night was probably the most relaxed I have ever felt, or can distinct from other times where I was probably more relaxed. I think what made this moment so relaxing was rare was that I was not intending that originally, when we are always seeking the way to make a moment the most fulfilling, always trying to dilute moments with backround audio, we lose a lot of the magic of the reality of lifes moments. The more you try in this case, the less of the result you will get. Do not be so fixated on making every single moment diluted, those true moments where things compliment eachother and a beautiful experience is had comes naturally. When we listen to an album a bunch of times in a certain period of time, then a year later we revisit the same album, we aren't reminded of the music that we were listening to but that time of our life. The moment is not dependant on the little thing playing in your ear, the little thing playing in your eye is entirely dependant on any moment we decide to incorporate it into, if we get that flipped, if we exceed we begin to dilute.
how I want to be careful I have to hold great caution in how I use these. On one of the first days of having these, I tried to see what it was like to be one of those people of my time, sitting in math class with one earbud in as casual as ever. It was very strange and sort of funny to be in class with vaporwave or whatever playing in the background as if nothing has changed. It feels sort of overwhelming, why train your brain to be even more clingy to the senses of life, what does that help you acheive besides mindlessly chasing each moment to be more 'filling'. All throughout high school I have witnessed people go throughout their whole days with an earbud in, the girls could hide it under their hair so that noone would know. Its like people want to have another tab of consiousness they can focus on whenever the gift of physical life is too menial for them. We must be in constant acknowledgement of how much we have, be grateful, do not mix up grace with what you believe you deserve. Be constantly mindful in how you use this type of technology that can so easily drag you into your own little world, a world where you are god (this is all we have ever wanted in our hearts). If a pair of earbuds makes you easily descend into constant sensory desires, then you have not remembered to be humble, grateful and constantly mindful of your subconsious intentions of how you use this technology. If even then it still continues to steer your focus away from a life of actual living, then hide these things or throw them away. The youtube took away too much time from me on my phone so I took the time to figure out how to block it. I do not want to habitually pull out my earbuds to get a little hit of stimulation whenever I am on break, walking for a few minutes to the next destination, etc., we cannot allow this to happen to ourselves. If we show no care for how we use technology, we will be trapped in a life of indulgence (the constant consummation), our brains corrupted by the massive amounts of information we try to cram in everyday. Imagine a person only years ago hearing a song (any song, not even one that they would necessarily prefer) and being awed by it. We have so greatly diminished our appreciation for what we get to listen to, to watch, to read. We have chosen quantity over quality in its most extreme sense. With self control and those three things I mentioned earlier, getting earbuds won't casually drift you towards further isolation and escape into a digitalized world where the only things that confront you are the thing you expect and want to confront you. We will and must stay on the right path.
In owning these, I see how almost everyone always walks around with their own little thing playing to only them, it roughly resembles a micro version of the people on the Axiom in WALL-E. They all go around on their own little screen, all doing their own thing in their own little world. These do have their benefits though and this brief moment of excitement for when these shine with simplistic convienience in undiluted manner will not last long so I must elaborate. These connected to my laptop easily and the audio quality is great. These will work very well for when I am washing the dishes or doing something of that manner as I can then listen to an RC Sproul sermon or something in the backround. This does not mean that everytime I do something like that I NEED to use my earbuds, it is like eating a steak meal with wine, you wouldn't eat every meal with wine or another drink like it but do it sometimes as a controlled little treat from time to time, you don't have to be an alcoholic about it. It will be cool to try and make a phone call with these, I can look like an insane person talking to myself. I see people that do this sometimes and I always think they are talking to me, walking by people on the sidewalk who will just blankly stare towards you while talking as if he was talking to you when they are really on a personal phone call, insane technology, all in moderation. It is as if when you begin to embrace these luxaries as the normal, you begin to take them for granted, I am sucked in now...
Creation Date: February 21st, 2025 - *cue slightly audible rap rop beat in tha backround: waxy earbud, monster enrgy drink, spend 70 dolair on foodaday, vape ere'day, cantont wait to go home at the end of along day and watch sum kwebelkop ishosped Awesome youuber... (all i do is watch! hip hip!)