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Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?
posted Saturday, 7 November 2009
Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?
I wrote this on my blog on 16 October 2009:
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Pre-internet, I had masses published 1987 - 1995.
Please see partial bibliography HERE as evidence.
So, was I the first inkling of an 'Internet' junkie - by, almost at will it seemed, during that early period, having things accepted daily for publication in print as a template process for future blogging etc...??
I have now divested myself of 99% of those print publications.
Indeed, I have already fast reduced my collection of mags and books to a manageable core library that should do me out. Very happy about that.
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I'd now add:
A part of me then used to wait for the postman in the same way as today it waits for the email inbox to open..
There's no helping people like that part of me.
Actually, most of me wants to escape that bit of me.
But just because communication has been 'oiled' by electronics (just as it was 'oiled' by the printing press in the Middle Ages), why should we destroy it by walking away from it, as I am often sorely tempted to do, as the only means to escape it?
Partial, moderate use is not an option. When things are so oiled it sort of oils you, too. Makes you a different person. And soon you will not be able to recognise that different person because that different person will be you.
Walking away cannot now reverse that process. That's the frightening thing ... just like the Large Hadron Collider.
1. Weirdmonger left...
Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:07 pm :: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadroni
Continued at link immediately above,