I’ve been researching the changes the Internet makes on human culture. Yes, it’s a big subject, but I think it is one every person who is engaged in any way with the world wide web should give thought to . A new book by Lee Siegel, Against the Machine, presents a jeremiad of the myriad of woes that the phenomenon of so many people sitting in isolation and interacting only with a computer scene can exact on our collective of life. My problem with the book, and with much of the other culture commentary on this subject, is that it doesn’t really address the deep underlying social changes which are occurring as a result of these changes.
For some the internet is the window that the matron wheels the patient to, somehow bringing a glimpse of life back to the individual, who, up until then stared down a lonely hall. To others it is the forum absent the cheers, the stage absent the trepidation of the audience ,the battle field absent the causalities of physical confrontation. Beast, or burden, or beast of burden it’s all in the motive behind the click of the key. So ask not who the keyboard tolls, the keyboard tolls for thee
Comment by MrVisions — February 17, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Nicole Kidman turns me into a Platonist, makes me think that the Absolute from of Beauty exist eternally up in heaven and she is the reflection of it. If I were a philosopher king of a Platonic state I would make sure all women would be clones of Kidman.
Comment by juju — July 31, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
Mr. Vision, I just noticed that you posted this comment on the 408th anniversary of the burning of Giordano Bruno in Rome…Coincidence? Yes, I think so.
Comment by 2bsirius — August 3, 2008 @ 7:45 pm