Writing It Down for You

Finally. I was afraid that I was the only one. Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting piece in the Atlantic Monthly, stating that his ever increasing dependance of the quick speedy information highway is making him stupid. Mainly it is chipping away at his capacity for concentration and contemplation and that it may have an affect on our future society.

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”

Sadly I have to agree with him. I barely made it through his five page article. These days I have trouble digging deep into a book, thinking that in my mind I can just hit command+F and do a search for what I am looking for then be done with it. Unfortuantly I can’t and it took me a semester of school to actually make myself concentrate, read every word and dig out the meaning of the book.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.

I started reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche this week. I decided to share that little snippet with you.

I added some features to the blog:

• 1. In the footer you will see that I added my and Amy’s Netflix queue. Now you can see all our current movies.
• 2. I installed iFlickr onto my iPhone. It allows me to send pictures that I take directly to my Flickr account. Hopefully I will be able to give you guys more to look at.