Alchemy of cultures

Touch screen gizmos and gadgets are like technological parasites, attached to all people and taking over their lives. Cultural selection will definitely reinforce fingers, not even human hands as some evolutionists predict. We don't mind touching other objects as long as they're not alive - proximity of living organisms make us uncomfortable and triggers some kind of psychological awareness. This may be one of the reasons that we hardly notice other people around and distance to other human bodies becomes impossible to cross for some of us. It's a reversely proportionate correlation. Hong Kong is probably half way to what I've seen on Japanese movies. Human detachment in progress.

I think for some people cruising around city center is equivalent of a therapeutic exercise, municipal cardio-walk. My favourite is a mob run (seen ofthen in Dublin also). In this insanely shrink space competition is just too high, parks are packed so morning jogging becomes a social event, apart from showing off new sporty gear. There is another benefit... Shopping! Like in all new-rich cities with glamour complex shopping is the ultimate outdoor sport and the way to establish your social self-confidence. How sad that even such historically rich and matured cultures get homogenized and go through the same stages of narrowing down their values.

And it's not the only trace of westernization. TV, radio and all possible media are contaminated with the same dull and brainless messages. They may be mixed with more exotic aesthetic or concealed under specific visual taste, but lack of meaning is exactly the same. Quite ridiculous is a Christmas Esperanza and constant buzz of songs like "Let it snow, let is snow..." but I guess it just requires a bit of imagination and Christmas spirit:)) It looks like they're more clever though sucking breasts from both mothers. Strategic geographical location between East and West make them produce more diversified version of a pop-culture matrix.