Dear Larry,
Look, I don't have time for this ...
(irony on full!)
Paul
betts@nevis1.columbia.edu
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 lblasch@opw-fc.com wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> This struck a nerve...
>
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>
> Syndicated columnist Bob Greene of Tribune Media Services wrote on
> October 11, 1998
>
> The world is evolving into a 24/7 operation...24 hours a day, seven
> days a week.
>
> He say's:
>
> "We live this way not because we want to -- but simply because we
> can. What do we gain by speeding up our existance this way?
>
> What we loose is peace. What we loose is a sense of reflection --
> of soothing emptiness.. Social theorteician Stephen Bertman, author of
> (Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed,) argues persuasively that most
> of the current crises facing society derive from our new addiction to
> living fast and constant.
>
> "Driven by the momentum of technologies operating at the speed of
> light," Mr. Bertman writes, "our social speedometer has continued to
> climb ... (W)e are now nearing a velocity called 'warp speed,' ...
> (I)t is one that can, if we are not wise or strong enough, warp the
> fundamental nature of our lives ..."
>
> "Unlike the monastery of the desert where mystics once attained
> transcendent perspective by withdrawing from the world, the realm of
> NOW is an environment of prevasive sensory stimulation and swift flux,
> a continually altered cosmos that offers us no fixed horizon. As a
> consequence, our lives come to be characterized more by their random
> trajectory than by any reasoned destination."
>
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> Do we do what we do just to do it?
>
> Microsoft's advertizing asks the the question:
>
> Where do you want to go today?
>
> Do you have a reasoned destination?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Larry Blasch
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>
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