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This is horrible. It's just an overexplanation of the exuberance unleashed by computers and the internet. The author observes the habits of modern-day college
by __ 18y ago
This is horrible. It's just an overexplanation of the exuberance unleashed by computers and the internet.
The author observes the habits of modern-day college students and assigns a deep meaning to them. Whenever he notices some superficial similarity between two activities (hey, having lots of low-commitment sexual partners is just like moving quickly from one webpage to another!) he points it out. Whenever he can quote some literary figure saying something roughly similar to what he's been writing about, he does. It reads like deliberate Stuff White People Like bait.
- ryanmahoski 18y agoThe author's literary style may be overzealous but I thought his philosophy was at least credible. He echoes Tolle, Zittrain and others who warn (as Zittrain puts it) "the internet, in many important respects, is a collective hallucination." Consider how many people today will spend most of their waking life sitting stationary, staring directly at a display. Is that a rational, enlightened way to live given the opportunity cost? I don't know but debating the question as this professor is doing doesn't seem to me horrible or baiting.