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Definitely. The novelty of new technology usurps novel thought. The experience of the medium supplants the message. The ecstasy of communication negates meaning
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Definitely. The novelty of new technology usurps novel thought. The
experience of the medium supplants the message. The ecstasy of
communication negates meaning... etc.
I'd honestly have thought that after 50 years we'd have overcome this,
settled into a plateau of productive, reflective progress that uses
digital tools instead of indulging in them.
But the churn of form and fashion, relentless progress of the tools
and their markets needed to fuel growth has actually kept us mentally
paralysed, enchanted, in an era where deep human thought is more
necessary than ever.
Perhaps long-lived alien civilisations know this as the real answer to
the Fermi Paradox. It isn't war and nuclear weapons that kills
species. They just get PlayStations and amuse themselves to death.
- CrypticShift 4y ago> after 50 years we'd have overcome this, settled into a plateau of productive, reflective progress that uses digital tools. IMO The problem is that, for all these years, "digital tools" progress was highjacked in service of corporation’s goals. the tft spirit is kind of different in that respect. > has actually kept us mentally paralysed, enchanted, in an era where deep human thought is more necessary than ever. Every time I take a deep dive into "quality" journalism/academia/books, I 'm reminded that all that necessary "deep human thought" we crave is already out there for the taking. We don't need more of it or even better. We need more people do open their minds to it. But if billions of those people amuse themselves to death with media, and millions fashionably consume their digital tools as they do for everything else in their life, I think you should solely blame the influence of crass capitalism for that. Tft kind of ideas, are a solution-in-waiting, not the cause of it.