Thursday, September 12, 2013
Idle and Ignorant
Idleness is a seductive and cunning inclination that easily encapsulates every technologically literate person. As information availability grows rapidly, our generation is losing determination to seek truth in what is at our grasp. We kindle our idle behavior when we deliberately spend qualitative time on web entertainment. It is an ignorant action with a consequence of ignorance. We need to expose our minds to useful and current information on a consistent basis. In the case technology disappears, how useful will our minds be in daily doings? What difference will we establish among family and peers?
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There are a lot of great comments and observations made here. Of all the great observations you made, which one do you feel it the most concerning? Your paragraph starts of with concern for not seeking truth and ends with relationships with family and peers. I think both are equally important. Great post Iris!
ReplyDeleteI guess you are right. Most importantly, I wanted to emphasize the importance of growing the mind instead of losing time. I tried to do that by introducing a situation where minds would be most challenged ethically and intelligently.
ReplyDeleteI like this. If we aren't deliberate in how we spend our time online we will look back at much time wasted. There is a lot of value to be found but we can't let ourselves get lost in all the useless information.
ReplyDeleteIn the case that technology disappears???
ReplyDeleteIt's a scenario.
DeleteBe actively engaged in a good cause.
ReplyDeleteBe actively engaged in a good cause.
ReplyDeleteI think its dangerous to classify this behavior as new. Every generation has been offered technology to transform the way they interact and are entertainer. For us, facebook. For our parents, music or car culture. Their parents said the same thing to them. This isn't to dismiss the the amount of change we have seen recently, but it seems to me that it is important to realize that these are human problems and human faults, not weaknesses first uncovered in our generation.
ReplyDeleteI find a plethora of my own interactive inadequacies come to mind when reading this post. Will the lackadaisical nature of our inter-human mingling eventually be a form of destruction through apathy? Is the intimate relationship lost by the world wide web? These provoking perceptions pondered upon make me pause as well. What will the world be like if technology were one day ripped from us. On the other hand, is that even a realistic concern? I appreciate the post and the thoughts it has stirred up. Also, I appreciate the pun in your title "One Ethical Iris" - "Unethical Iris".
ReplyDeleteOf course it is a concern. Not necessarily that technology can be ripped from us, but it is a concern with the importance of being technological independent and spending our time wisely learning from what technology provides instead of idling with it.P.S. Your comment on my title is rude.
DeleteI think it's fine to squander our minds on technology.
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