One thing that has been particularly vexing for me during this trip to a whole lot of iconic places is the number of young people who spend vast amounts of time getting exactly the right shot for their own personal agenda and ignore the beauty that is not themselves. We were very surprised to see young people and not just girls standing in front of what is the eight wonder of the world and spending no time looking or absorbing, but all the time posing and flicking hair whilst Angkor Wat looks on and goes, ‘seriously, WTF?” ….or whatever that would sound like in Hindi or Buddhist. If an ancient building actually spoke.
Outside the Unification Palace in Vietnam, two young girls, perhaps in their 20’s stood and pretended to pose walk, or pose get called, or pose a fast spin. In Hanoi, this woman took about 20 minutes to pose at the side of the pool casually ‘glancing’ over her left shoulder. Some young guys at Cambodia, did what I can only describe as K-Pop’s version of grunge, who didn’t seem to be interested in 1000 years of history, just their own look.
Tonight took the cake! There was a bar and a restaurant full of people and a young lady spent several chunks of time which added up to around 30 minutes just posing and taking photos and posing and taking photos.
You can’t see the garter around her leg, but who am I to judge?
Incidentally she also travelled up in the lift in that outfit, but again, I am the wrong generation to even understand.
I am going to say ‘hey National, do something that is actually going to make a difference for eyes all over the world, please ban social media!”
Where is your posing while taking photos? Meanwhile I will be invisible to AI.
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