When was the last time you had a power outage??
Can there be a modern life without internet, TV, and cell phones? Can a person function well in this new era of hyper-technology? Can you carry on business as usual? Can you succeed without being plugged into the information flow?
When is it too much? When does technology begin to truncate life. When does technology turn from servant to master?
I want to go back. I want to go back to when I wasn’t dependent on technology. I want to go back to when I didn’t have a cell phone appendage, or unlimited information at the touch of a button, or constant connectivity and pseudo-omniscience. I want to go back to playing outside, I want to unleash my creativity because it is necessary, not because it’s a hobby. I want to feel private, non-homogenized, and not categorized. I want the simplicity of ignorance. I want it to just stop. I want to reset our technology credo?
Are the walls of our prison made of silicon?
Can you throw away your cell phone, TV and computer? I can’t.
It’s interesting to me how I have been in a very similar mindset to where you are now and yet I have nothing to really add to the topic.
I do try to do a worldly unplug every once in a while where I don’t watch tv, listen to the radio or music, or play video games for a week and just get in the word. Although last time I did it, it was a catchup time on work instead of a get into the word time.
My urge to look for an email or a message or a comment is like rat in a cage figuring out how to get the food pellet. You are right. We’d be better off ACTUALLY creating art or conversation.
Anybody want to swing by the house and actually do that with us?