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HIATUS from technology 2016-12-14 08:45:48 Post No. 8842769
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HIATUS from technology 2016-12-14 08:45:48 Post No. 8842769
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Has anyone ever experimented with shunning technology for a few weeks? No phone, Internet, TV, etc.
I'm 5 days in, and I've never felt better. I don't have to force myself to read anymore, it just happens naturally and smoothly, and my concentration is at 100% effortlessly. I mean, this is crazy. I actually enjoy sitting down and learning Spanish now. It's effortless. And a walk outside feels amazing.
I'm becoming convinced that technology has had sinister effects on us. Or overstimulation, or watever it is. This is why, compared to our predecessors, none of us are polyglots, none of us are well read, etc. It's because it was easier for them due to the fact that their minds slipped into these things more easily, because these were sufficient stimulation in their time. It was either these things or sit and stare at a wall. But now, it's not like that.
It's as if without these temptations and overstimulation, my brain is more fine tuned to pick up more subtle pleasures, like when you don't eat all day, and then take a bite of food, and the flavour is overwhelming.
Really makes me sad to think about.
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really makes you stink
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>>8842769
>I'm doing such a great job at not being on 4chan!
>Better go tell 4chan!
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>>8842782
Well I haven't been perfect, I'm taking a 15 minute break, but you still get the idea
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>>8842769
this is officially the most cliche notion of this decade. Good job you realized that too much of something was bad for you. People spend too much time facing a screen now vs drinking themselves to death, no difference. "Back then" people were dumber its just that your evil technology allows you to swiftly glide throughout human history and allow you to see the polyglots of said time. Rare individuals don't appear throughout history very often, surprise!
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>>8842796
>People spend too much time facing a screen now vs drinking themselves to death, no difference
Did you take that from the other post comparing Millennials to the Lost Generation or is it simply coincidence?
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>>8842769
Electric media, effects:
—discarnate (obsolesces the body)
—virtual (obsolesces the physical—physical space, local culture, local community)
—decentralise & the abolishing of space and time (anything can be done from anywhere at any time; which dictates much the end of cities and urban environments all around the globe: once centralising forces of work and labour and functions, now a touristic landscape and home to the poor)
—electric speed=simultaneity (in thought, this means structuralism and gestalt, to the detriment of lineal thinking, syllogistic "logical" thinking; narrative recedes, the instantaneous is brought to prominence)
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>>8842796
All is always the same, therefore no need to understand the present, and definitely pointless to contrast it with the past. Nothing to learn from the past, except that it was stupid.
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>>8842887
What is this from?
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>>8842918
The two McLuhans.
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>>8842769
You're not five days in. Your five days are over. You've returned to your master dutifully enough. If you're gonna be a little cunt about it, don't expect me to care. Either use these tools to your advantage or kys because you've demonstrated clearly that the only point to your little exercise was to be able to gloat about how enlightened you are.
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>>8842965
Tousche. You're right to be honest. I will return in two more weeks. Will only use computer for work.
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>>8842956
Are you talking about this book? What made you read it? I've never heard of it before.
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>>8842796
>People spend too much time facing a screen now vs drinking themselves to death
>Implying I don't do both
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