Re: Making sure I'm not checking email (or doing other things) too often

[Emanuel Berg]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

>> Bah. Real world is overrated.
>
> Saw this in someone's signature (cant trace exact
> source):
>
> "Real world" is a phrase that cannot be written
> without quotation marks

Everything is as "real" but what is generally implied
is the volume and diversity of sensory input, of
emotional and creative responses and actions...

So a PNG depicting a girl in a downsuit on a sailboat
with Novaya Zemlya in the background - it is a real
picture alright but what it depicts is something else
just the same.

Show this picture to ten teenagers and perhaps four
will say: "So she is doing the Northeast passage.
Big deal." and six will say "That looks insane,
I could never do anything even remote to that!"

Both attitudes are unhealthy and this is what happens
if you live your life thru the monitor only.
Your world view gets skew.

Computers are great fun and an awesome tool for many
things but they shouldn't be a substitute for things
that have nothing to do with computers. This makes the
computer look bad and the "things" even more so.

But I'm confident this is a stage only. The kids will
snap out of it. They always do :)

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