Agreed, but I think we've always done that, haven't we? The Romantics would have done that. So would the Bolsheviks et. al. It's an interesting thing to think through...
Some have always done that. But the Romantics, I would say, did it on purpose, and it required work. The "generation today" just drifts with the flow of technology.
Yeah, I could grant you that. It's easy to be completely oblivious to how technology is carrying us all along. Once you wake up to that fact, though, it sets up an internal dilemma, and it's very hard to step out of that river. Maybe almost impossible. It's more than a habit to break or moderate. More, even, than an addiction. It's more like the Matrix, I suppose; the only option is to literally unplug. That's something that previous generations certainly did not have to deal with—this level of Zuckerbergian faux-"connection".
Re: First: We perceive. Then we think. Then we speak. Then we act.
I was just reminded of a snippet from Wokal Distance's discussion with Benjamin Boyce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGi5abNh8s4
"The generation today is a generation that speaks with images, listens with their eyes, thinks with their feelings, and decides with their hearts."
Agreed, but I think we've always done that, haven't we? The Romantics would have done that. So would the Bolsheviks et. al. It's an interesting thing to think through...
Some have always done that. But the Romantics, I would say, did it on purpose, and it required work. The "generation today" just drifts with the flow of technology.
Yeah, I could grant you that. It's easy to be completely oblivious to how technology is carrying us all along. Once you wake up to that fact, though, it sets up an internal dilemma, and it's very hard to step out of that river. Maybe almost impossible. It's more than a habit to break or moderate. More, even, than an addiction. It's more like the Matrix, I suppose; the only option is to literally unplug. That's something that previous generations certainly did not have to deal with—this level of Zuckerbergian faux-"connection".