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Tango
Counterculture
We live in the Globalization
Age...
And, what would this so-called
Globalization mean? According
to Bill Gates (who knows
something about the matter),
this phenomenon is about fast
communications.
So we could also say, we live
in the Communication Era.
And even though that, we
have never found ourselves
so lonely, so isolated, so
alienated (the Latin root
for this term is something
like “without any bonds or
connections with persons or
reality”)...
The Internet connects us
in real time with people all
over the world, although few
times we know for certain
who our interlocutor is, we
are just informed of who he
supposedly is.
We can choose from hundreds
of Cable TV channels, but,
we’ll be lucky if we find any of
them broadcasting something
worth watching, or that
something that leaves us a
message worth remembering.
monosyllables in a dialogue
with us.
We can see people hypnotized
by the screens, chatting with
some other people, that may
be miles away, or sitting right
next to them, and they make
up stories where Tango
each one
pretends to be something
else, assumes a personality
they would like to have, or
the convenient one for that
particular game.
We can see, in dancing pubs
today, men and women,
mostly young, dancing
alone, or their movements
and attitude completely
disconnected from their
partners. Alone facing a
mirror. Alone on the dance
floor. Alone though surrounded
by people. Alone. Almost
absolutely without any
contact.
Modern musical expressions,
mainly consist of rhythmical
bases, where lyrics, if any,
are the least important thing.
There’s nothing to say.
Strident sounds that make
Most of our young people have a conversation impossible,
increasingly been adopting
along with visual effects, that
an exasperating dialectic
suppress any other type of
economy so that they now
communication.
seldom pronounce other than
Superficiality and
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