There is a terrible dysfunction that sometimes happens to people once we get behind a camera, everything that happens in front of us seems a little less real when filtered thru this lens. We become divorced from life, one step farther away from reality we become third party participants in our own life. Once you have a camera in front of your face you are no longer the same person, you become an observer not an actor. Sometimes all that happens looking at life thru your camera is that you act less, you live less. It becomes night unto impossible with a camera to climb a tree, too jump off of hoodoo’s or to pick up a game of Frisbee, however there is also a darker problem with the idea of disassociating with life behind a camera.
There are so many stories that we hear that are sobering in what we as humanity are capable of. I read this article today there are two videos at the end, the first video was interesting and worth watching. I, However, could not bring myself to watch the second video mentioned.
Imagine, to be laying there in pain, abused, broken, dying. Fortunately there is someone else there, someone to offer help, or if it is too late for that, comfort. But no, no they are no longer human, and the last thing you see before you fade out is a stranger coldly standing over you recording your last breaths.
Perhaps it would have been better to slip slowly into darkness, Alone.
Without our humanity we are nothing.
