Back then I used to be easier
when it was just the village.
I get the whole desire to get off
all forms of networks and just go back to “the simple life”. Yes, I get it. I
recently sold my smart phones. I sold my television set. I want to sell my
laptop and most other portable electronic devices. If possible I would like to
use internet only when I am at work and nowhere else. I am severing all
electronic umbilical cords.
But while I may understand the
angst of off this entire tech overload I respond differently. I do not sign
out, close my accounts and withdraw. No! Instead in jump right in, embrace it
and allow it to engulf me. The only thing I strive to achieve is control.
Control is everything. Power is nothing without control you see.
I believe that all those that
throw in the towel, have struggles and lost the battle for control. "Anyone
can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you
strong.” - Sarah Dessen. I believe that true change comes when ordinary men
take ordinary things and choose to do extra ordinary things with them. So instead
of robbing the world of my light I choose to shine it and instead of expending
myself in the name of what is cool, I expend myself in search of control and
balance.
To hide from the world of
internet, social networks and all that is trending at the moment, to speak in
silence and to avoid the lingo of this generations is to be unseen and unheard
and yet your message is desired. Yes it does get tiring, and
mundane, and boring but hey when I Rome to jig to the Roman beat or at least
speak in the language they understand.
Another thing about this craze; at
the heart of it all I suspect is selfishness. Self preservation I can
understand, but that exist to protect us from harmful situations and if that is
what social networking and the Internet is to you then unplug, but if not then
I wonder what you be going on about. But then again, it’s a free world so you
can do as you please.
But do not make it look like it’s
the fault of the network that you pine over new comments or write in such a way
to attract them or find that you cannot do without it blah blah blah. Internet
and social networking is morally neutral. Chances are that whatever you are
feeling or whatever hole you are in is mostly of your doing. Internet is just
one manifestation of it all.
Also don’t make it look like the
rest that are happy where they are clueless, brainless mash with nothing better
to do with their time. If that was the case then I am sure Wikipedia and even Google
would not exist. We would be just a bunch of zombies clicking like buttons and
writing on walls.
There is so much more than can be
done with the resources our generation has, let’s pull our heads out of our
asses and use them. The internet needs the light too.
Other random thoughts.
Why can’t we eat real food for breakfast?
