NorseViking869
04-28-2010, 01:26 AM
Ok class! Pop Quiz! What has simultaneously been a great boon in our physical and cultural evolution, but has also created a vacuum in our morals, values and manners? Whats has striven to give a voice to the masses who would other wise go ignored, yet, has also been used to mislead? What has given an education and spread information like wildfire, but has sucked the intelligence down from society faster than the TV?
The Internet and the Cell Phone:
Though the net and the cell have both enriched our lives and helped make the shy and the socially awkward more confident and part of the gene pool, it has also lead us to be less humane to our fellow humans. Even in my own sentence coming to the defense of those whose lives have been made better by the net, It was also a back handed compliment. So why leave it in this paragraph or even anywhere in this post? it is to illustrate the point that modern technology has been both a boon and a blight. It has even made me a bit more social from a far and more antisocial IRL. In fact net lingo, shorter attention spans than that of the MTV generation, lack of decorum, and focusing more on Twitter and Facebook on the cell than on our dates has become more and more common place. So what can we do to brake the chain?
A Holiday:
Holidays are about celebration and about loss. I say that we should make one day or weekend a Tech Free Day or weekend. A day or weekend to remind us, that people are more important than World of Warcraft. That net celebrity is not as important as being with real people and enjoying nature. many of us do this once a month or once a week already, so why not make one weekend a year a day or 2 of no internet or cell phones and redoing the things we did 5-10 years ago, like fishing, going to a picnic, watching a baseball game, taking a hike, going on a long aimless drive to see new places (etc,etc).
The net and the cell phone are the best things we ever had for many reasons;however, let us not become addicted to these aides, for they are not as important as real life.
The Internet and the Cell Phone:
Though the net and the cell have both enriched our lives and helped make the shy and the socially awkward more confident and part of the gene pool, it has also lead us to be less humane to our fellow humans. Even in my own sentence coming to the defense of those whose lives have been made better by the net, It was also a back handed compliment. So why leave it in this paragraph or even anywhere in this post? it is to illustrate the point that modern technology has been both a boon and a blight. It has even made me a bit more social from a far and more antisocial IRL. In fact net lingo, shorter attention spans than that of the MTV generation, lack of decorum, and focusing more on Twitter and Facebook on the cell than on our dates has become more and more common place. So what can we do to brake the chain?
A Holiday:
Holidays are about celebration and about loss. I say that we should make one day or weekend a Tech Free Day or weekend. A day or weekend to remind us, that people are more important than World of Warcraft. That net celebrity is not as important as being with real people and enjoying nature. many of us do this once a month or once a week already, so why not make one weekend a year a day or 2 of no internet or cell phones and redoing the things we did 5-10 years ago, like fishing, going to a picnic, watching a baseball game, taking a hike, going on a long aimless drive to see new places (etc,etc).
The net and the cell phone are the best things we ever had for many reasons;however, let us not become addicted to these aides, for they are not as important as real life.