One of my favourite websites, Sociological Images, posted a link today to the following documentary from the 1970s, titled "Ways of Seeing".
As I began watching the documentary, I found myself growing impatient with what I felt was an incredibly lugubrious pace, and could imagine my contemporaries having a good laugh at the video with its seemingly awkward, long pauses.
However, it occurred to me a few minutes in that perhaps the video was proceeding at a perfectly reasonable pace, but that most of us have become so used to being continuously bombarded with sights and sounds and information, that extra time to process information seems strange, maybe even inefficient.
Thus enlightened, I was able to put aside my irritability and appreciate the content of the documentary, which turned out to be fantastic indeed. Let's all sloooow down and enjoy the show.
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