Do I think I could live in the woods for a year? No way José! I could never give up everything and live deliberately without technology. I cannot go anywhere without my cell phone, I’m constantly texting and calling my friends and family. I like to talk on the phone and use the computer for social networks such as, Facebook, and twitter. If I was to live the way he did for a year, I wouldn’t be able to do it. I think I would mentally break. I would go insane! What would I do with myself? No outside contact with the world! In class, I remember one of my classmates saying he didn’t know what to do when his phones dies. I feel the same way; I will stop whatever I’m doing to get it on the charger as soon as possible. I feel like the world stops and won’t continue until my phone is back on and then it starts again with communication. I do have an obsession with my technology, in this class and reading the literature we do I realize that it consumes me. I am a victim of technology in this generation. If I were to live in solitude for a year I think I would learn to live without technology and it would undo some of my bad habits. I think that my life would be filled with more constructive things to do and I would be a lot smarter if I was stuck with some of the basics. I wouldn’t want to try it but if I was put into a situation that I was forced to I think I could sustain a good life and break my bad obsession with technology.
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- Brandi Press
- My name is Brandi Press, Im A Freshman and i would like to major in criminal justice, I am undeclared right now though. I play rugby for 3 years and i am now on the Ship RUGBY team :)
I agree with what you are saying here. I like the technology we have just as much as you do. But I feel like we have all become too obsessed with it, that it is causing a problem. I think that we forget that we didn't have it coming in to this world and for the first few years of our life, so it is possible to get by without it. Also I feel like it was easier back then for Thoreau because we were not as technologically developed and he didn't have a cellphone, Facebook, etc. If he was alive today, I don't think he would be able to do it either!
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I agree with you. It almost sounds like a good idea to have a mass technology shut off for just a day or two. Just to get out of the black hole we've been sucked into. And also agree with Alex's comment above that it was different and easier back then because the "modern" technology was not the same as it is now and the dependency on it wasn't the same either.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it would be interesting to live without technology like the amish. a simpler life. I don't know that they are any more likely to have depression then us or not, but i think it would be an interesting experiment. I've been don't the no technology experiment, and its majorly inconvenient, and i'm late and forget a lot, but other then that. Its not overly bad. I think if you tried it, you wouldn't die. :)
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