Still taken back by last week's New Yorker cover
11.07.2009 - 6:32 PM - Tim - 11 comments
11.07.2009 - 6:32 PM - Tim - 11 comments
Last week's New Yorker cover has received some really good press on the web since it debuted, and a week later I'm still completely drawn in by it. It's a telling and simple commentary on modern society. I'm reminded of Wall-E and wonder how long before we become so sucked in by our connectivity that we lose our ability to have meaningful relationships with each other. It seems so far-fetched, but every one of us can look around and at ourselves to see how real this is. While I love my gadgets, I long for a simpler life with fewer distractions. Fewer emails, more friendships. More family and less me. How does one recover from this type of lifestyle? Where do we go from here?
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Good questions. The answers are inside of us...
the problem is . . .not only do you have to disconnect, but everyone else too.
I have been super frustrated with this very thing lately. People who return phonecalls with a text, people who want to be facebook friends, but will hardly venture away from the computer for true social opportunities.
That's outstanding.
Amen.
love this post. and the sentiment.
feel.
B
This post is made of awesomeness.
I miss the days of pen and paper letters and notes to people. I miss calling and talking to someone on the phone or leaving a message instead of just hoping they see the caller ID and return the call.
Truthfully I miss the days when people stepped away from their computer screens and actually had real friendships and relationships with other humans instead of a computer/cell phone/other electronic device. Let's start a revolution! I don't know how but I bet Tim that you could come up with a fabulous way to bring these things back!
Without technology, I would not be able to ponder my friend's blog post from Tokyo about yearning for simpler times.
Irony.
As an ideal, I am with you, Tim. I think the first comment on this thread hits at my opinion...that the answer is inside of us, meaning our relationships can still be as meaningful as we choose to make them. Avoiding the distractions requires discipline in some respects. Read more-watch less; run/walk more-drive less; more game nights-less movie nights.
Look at me writing like I have this all figured out. Not even close...but the specifics I've mentioned have helped me feel less controlled by the machine of techology/information we are all bombarded with.
Send me a postcard, eh? I'll send a quick "howdy" note in response from my southern Idaho digs to yours in Tokyo through the mail, with an envelope and stamp and everything. It will be our way of telling modern technology and its degrading effects on social relationships to stick it.
Take care, man. Good post.
One does this Timmy by coming back to Happy Valley bro. :)
That cover is almost haunting. Man, I have to agree with Brian though. It should still be manageable, but I shamefully admit I would have serious drug-like withdrawls if I was put in a cabin with nothing but a note book and a pencil. I know you're not saying that, but there definitely is something to be said for what I'm able to do with technology. I love that I can at least see how your doing via your blog.
Love you broseph.
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Dang - that's how I feel: less material crap, more real friendships. Less work, more family. Worry less about money and more about my kids. Smaller (less expensive) home so I have more money to create the only thing that matters - memories! Thanks for posting.
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