YouTube thinks I need a gun safe, I guess because I was watching kittens.
Scary business, bae.
YouTube thinks I need a gun safe, I guess because I was watching kittens.
Scary business, bae.
Idea: Delete your Facebook and get rid of your smart phone.
Queue the technology apologetics... now!
Honestly, it makes me want to throw it all away. Buy an old-fashioned flip-phone and distribute my landline # to people.
The other day I was listening to my local talk radio and they mentioned that this is "No Screen Week" and so they were taking calls from people who have rejected technology--phones, iPads, laptops, etc. It was interesting to hear the experiences of the few people that called in and said that they had thrown away, or never had, the technology we depend on every day. One woman said she had thrown her Blackberry in a pond years ago and never looked back. She said she wants to live her life, not find it through social media and a dozen apps.
She has a point, but our devices are now practically grafted to us, at least psychically. When you can now use a phone to find your way, get the answers to any question in the universe, wake up, listen to your favorite authors, get the weather, play music, make a budget, track your exercise, order a hotel, get the nearest and cheapest parking garage, message your friends without having to bother them on the phone, find out what plants are in a garden by snapping their photo, pay your bills, video your kid's birthday, order anything made under the sun online, read books, record audio reminders, and even get support for prayer and meditation.... well, it's hard to give all that up.
But are we willing to pay the price?
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
www.silententry.wordpress.com
I would call this something like a false equivalency. Just because you accept the form of technology we call the "campfire" does not mean you have to accept the form of technology called "neutron bombs."
I don't suggest we reject all technology, just the parts that make life worse.
And this is purely a philosophical discussion. Why?
Because I know that humankind will keep speeding toward ecocide despite me "stand(ing) athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."
See what I did there, LDAHL?
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)