Did Rush predict and teach us about social media?

Did Rush Predict Social Media Stress?

Lime light—Co Written by  all three members of the band

Lyrics

Living on the lighted stage approaches the unreal

For those who think and feel

In touch with some reality 

Beyond the guilded cage

cast in this unlikely role ill-equipped. To act

With insufficient. Tact 

One must put up barriers 

To keep oneself intact

Chorus Living in the limelight

The universal dream For those  who wish to seem

For those who wish to be

Must put aside the alienation

Get on with the fascination-the real relation—the underlying theme

Living in a “fish eye ‘ land 

Caught in the camera eye 

I  have no heart to lie

I can’t pretend a stranger  is a long-awaited friend

All the world’s indeed a stage and

We are merely players—performers and portrayer

Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage

Chorus

PhilosophyWell...how many  social media profiles do you have?  How many  people urge to  “get on the gram?” Or post more on faceboo?  Anybody remember  “my space?” How about “Vine?”  

I like social media for keeping in touch with  “friends” and some like minded souls and yet from time to time I find myself doing a soul check to make sure I’m  not lost in  “the unreal.”  I also. Have to be aware that sometimes I look for a response related to certain “posts”   And feel a micro alienation when  those don’t come....not often does a this happen to me but it does... and then I must put aside the alienation (no matter how self-created it is).  

We, indeed, must “put up barriers” or more  effectively  draw  lines  so that our social media impressions and connections are in line with our “outside the gilded cage” values.  It’s really, really, human to want to belong to, and create, tribes.  Some of us are born introverts who are really hyper aware  of what we expose and when and others are  just out there all the time and yet others swing from side of that spectrum. To the other.  Rush just nails the  human need to be aware of being a public figure and an audience nearly all the time and it happens  whether  you intend it or not. In many cases.  You see we  no longer live in the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the age of “enlightenment”, the machine age, or even the  Information Age... we live in the networking and connection age.  Every age to follow will include  that element of our lives so keep the words of Rush in mind and choose your roles wisely and do not be afraid to change them to integrate social media with your “real” self.  Teach your children (CSNY)  or let them teach you (do I feel another. LTRRP post?) to navigate their  limelight identity because each of us  should be at liberty to “think and feel.”

Rock  On