09-30-2019, 09:34 AM
(08-31-2019, 06:33 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(08-31-2019, 04:50 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: In the post-WW2 period there was a lot of anti-technology sentiments. Beatniks and hippies wanted to go back to nature, 1970 anarchists destroyed computers and after the Chernobyl disaster anti-nuclear sentiments became mainstream.
And then millennials came, trusting technology as no generation since the GIs. I know this is what S&H predicted, but what specific reasons made millennials develop this way?
How people use technology is what's not to trust not the technology itself. I like using the internet to search for things and to learn, for information. I don't trust lab meat however or a lot of the advances people seem to be pushing for or the lack of privacy people seem to want. Social media also has me iffy and how people are willing to trust strangers online more than their own thoughts and experiences. I see technology as a tool that can be used for good or evil. Some technologies I choose, others I eschew.
More: listen to this and feel enriched...
Well worth the time.
Or read this:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200
(I think that Donald Trump makes Kafka more relevant in America... although I could imagine expanding upon it. A little twist on the saying, "once black, never back"? It's not about sex. It might be about a white woman who starts having to assert that she is not "the Maid" after she gets some strange malady). Read this novel and your imagination might get some stimulation.
Between YouTube videos of great music and Project Gutenberg, and maybe a couple of art sites one can be rich in ways that many people are broke.
The Internet does not so much innovate as refine and give access cheaply. You do not need the disc or the dead-tree edition.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.