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Re: Jon Postel Re: 202210301538.AYC
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 11:04:47 +0200
On 10/31/22 00:41, Abraham Y. Chen wrote:
2) To follow what you are saying, I wonder how could we think "out of the box" or go "back to the future", before it is too late for our world wide communications infrastructure to serve as a reliable daily tool without being a distraction constantly?
At the risk of being severely off-topic, this is an existential question that talks to the burden of priviledge.
Current society has such technological advancement, famine, drought and war are not top-of-mind for most people (even if these issues are for many), compared to millennia gone by.
The difficulty with modern-day priviledge is that many people cannot answer the "why" to our existence, because there is simply easy and abundant access to information, with comfort, that leaves so many without direction until much later in life. In millennia gone by, your purpose in life was to survive war, find food, find water, and keep your kin alive. The world is, for the most part, too comfortable for that, nowadays.
All that leads to is the "constant distraction" that we see today, more so with the kids, but also with many adults. The very thing that has propelled society in many useful ways, is also what is likely going to set us back a tad.
Mark.
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