In a 2005 article titled Society Is Dead: We Have Retreated into the iWorld, Dr. Andrew Sullivan wrote on the changing of society. His article claimed that due to iPods and other mobile music devices, people are missing out on the world because they are tuned into their iPods. Overall, I disagree with the message of this article and feel like one persons take on a busy New York street doesn't determine society's change.
Dr. Sullivan's article, although outdated (2005), is too judgmental on a very small group of people. It appeared as if Dr. Sullivan just observed New York people on any given day and noticed many of them were listening to music. There could be so many reasons why people are listening to music that it is unfair to say that they always listen to music. He goes on to say that they appear uninterested in the world around them. How can you possibly say they are uninterested in the world around them because they feel like listening to their music?
Nine years later, society hasn't become anymore "unaware" than it was in 2005 due to iPod usage, which is strange considering there are millions more iPhones and iPods than there were nearly a decade ago. If society is becoming less aware, it is because of our own ignorance, not because we choose to listen to our music on subways instead of talking to the stranger next to us. Society isn't being affected negatively by music usage in public. If anything, music is impacting our society positively. There have been many studies on the effects on mood and behavior good music has on people. This article has very little facts and is based generally off of assumptions and observations, and therefore, is not very reliable.
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