I turned the news services off many years ago and mostly couldn't tell someone what was going on around the place. It hasn't impeded my life at all, but daily improves it by not having to take on that negativity, and worrying about things I can't affect. Every now and then I take a look but I don't last very long.
These days everyone has an opinion, mostly (generally) planted within their empty heads by someone else, a news reader, the headlines they glimpsed on the newspaper, a cartoon like The Simpsons...I sometimes wish everyone would just shut the fuck up and look inwardly, not outwardly.
You know, there was a time when a person wouldn't know much about anything outside of 1 mile from where they lived...I wonder if that wasn't a nicer existence.
Today I took time out of my day to watch the Space X launch. I like that kind of stuff.
Of course not far is a "suggestion" to tune in to some form of chaos. I don't mind learning of events, but I will not be sticking around for the encore.
That time you're talking about where you don't know much about the happenings far from home... I go there at least once a year. There's nothing to be afraid of.
Yep, I get it...Being selective, exercising a right to choose what to absorb...Most don't have the ability though.
Not having the information, the news, has not been of a detriment to us in the 14 years I've been avoiding it. If there's a thing that's important to me then I know it, from the right sources, all the other stuff is just noise to be blocked out. It keeps things simple, and I am, after all, as simple as it gets.
I'm not sure what I am or what I want. I've been alive long enough to see change in the world though. This technology would seem like magic to people not even that long ago. If you showed them, they'd be amazed. If you showed them what we actually do with it, they'd most certainly be confused; afraid.
Agreed!
I'm 50...I remember life without computers, internet, mobile phones, power windows on the car etc. Lol.
Tell people under 25 that we wad to use a phone box and they're all, OMG and shit. It's not their fault though I guess. Progress.
You know we had the Adelaide hive meet-up last Thursday (Discord chat) and we were talking about how far the world (society etc.) goes before it realises it's gone too far...And then how difficult (or possible) it is to pull it back. It was an interesting chat. I have my thoughts...I don't think I'd miss computers and the internet at all...But then again, I'm the dude that wants to spend time with the planet, the outdoors and stuff...Not playing Fortnight or Grand Furious Turismo or whatever the fuck.
My childhood dreams came true. I'd play a racing game on Nintendo and wish the other cars were other actual people. Even told my dad, "Someday people will be driving those cars." He laughed, said it was impossible. Then years later I found myself on a PC playing racing against people from all over the planet, while a little kid was yelling in my ear and calling me names... That little kid had no clue how amazing it was to even be losing.
Even though I joke around a lot, part of the appeal of being online for me is the fact the best conversations I've ever had take place online. It's rare I get to sit around with people and have those interestingly deep conversations. Even these days I'm sitting around a fire and they're talking about the same drivel Facebook feeds them. So many times in my head I could finish their sentences. We're in deep now. Even my parents are on their phones all the time, repeating things to me. Angry about things they were never angry about before. It's eerie.
In deep, yes for sure. Things have gone so far. Was only saying to my brother (the non-hive one) today about what things may be like in 20 years. It's unlikely I'll be around but still, didn't fill me with hope.
More of the same but far more efficiently. This thing will be finishing our sentences for us.