The Great Lie

Used to be when you wanted to get your point across you actually got in someone’s face – no more. The disassociative nature of technology is separating and fragmenting our society rather than bringing it together. It is called ‘social networking’, but is it really?! Sure, there is connection in some way, but from the lonely dark rooms of our homes or worse yet, crowded rooms where we are cubicled off from each other. The great lie being propagated as the panacia to a one world, global society was that technology was going to cure our ills by bringing ideas and people together. Have you experienced a sense of joining with the world lately, or do you feel more closed off than ever before?

Take the advent of television: what began to happen? Families sat in a passive state as entertainment came at us one way only, no interacting with it. Thus we see whole families sitting idle, deadened expressions, faces awash in flickering cathode rays. The family card nights, board games, charades and alike falling by the wayside. T.v. trays took the place of dinner tables, as our society fell under the spell of this new broadcast medium.  …and that was only the beginning. Continue lendo →