Most americans find joy in the instantaneous. They do not think about what makes them happy in the long run, or even what will make them happy in the next hour. As they flip through the 60 or so channels on the television, they are met with mostly repeated programming. To catch something on the first run is rare. To avoid seeing something twice is nearly impossible. Americans have become accustomed to the idea of being let down by their lives. It is amazing that someone would work a job he hated for ten years, and yet be so pleased by the instant low quality gratification of the media of television. In the same way, a person could spend a lifetime accumulating many conversation piece ornaments for his house. After so many years, and so many additions to the collection of trinkets, the importance of any single thought is lost; devalued by the ease of accumulation of other like objects. There are over 60 channels on standard cable television. There are over 60 magnets on the front of this refrigerator. None of these is performing the task they were designed for, despite their abundance.
None of them has a message attached...
Yet a Polaroid provides instant gratification.
This Polaroid is stuck to the
front of my refrigerator with a magnet.
Everyone needs some pictures
of his family.
Even a big metal box.