OT: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

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1.  Short attention span

2.  Inability to deep read

3.  Loss of ability to socialize

4.  Depression / Self harm

5.  Bullies.  Trolls.  Government Policy by Tweet.

 

It is not a Brave New World, it is a Sad New World.

 

 

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References:

a. The Agony of Eros, Byung-Chul Han

b. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom

c,  Is Modern Love Endangered?  The Weekly Standard, Tim Markatos

d. Allan Bloom's Souls Without Longing, All Grown up.  Public Discourse, The Witherspoon Institute, Peter Augustine Lawler

 

Our techno overlords at Facebook, Google, Apple et al, are, as described by Bloom are " [souls] racked with longing and hunger for something they know not how to name."  Love and by extension music are alien to them.  As Peter Augustine Lawler comments in the"souls without longing" article, Not only is love alien to them but  "any form of heart-enlarging experience that would threaten one's independence and survival.  They are, deep down, social solitaries."

 

Some of these references go back to 1987!    

 

Music + Love are endangered!

 

 

 

 

In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake ~ Sayre's Law

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