Blogs are quite the amazing thing. Me, a student in a high school can post things here people anywhere in the world can see. This is ridiculous. This wasn't even conceived as possible one hundred years ago. But today millions of people blog everyday. Never mind ranting about blogging, just look at the internet! I can learn any language, watch any movie, read any book all in one chair. This innovation of technology is really taken for granted by today's youth though. This ridiculously huge outlet to information at our fingertips is amazing, and i think a lot of us would be lost without it. Which is kind of sad really; now we have a whole race of beings dependant on the things they created. Kind of sounds like a religion story no? Either way today's technology and the potential for more technology is mind boggling. Like right now you might be wondering why I added this picture to the blog post. I haven't mentioned it yet, it has relevance to my point though, can you see it? Humans today are growing up with machines. Machines and gadgets are a kid's new best friend, who needs a dog? Can you're dog play music, surf the web, stream movies, and calculate tips? I didn't think so. Humans today are simply born with it, it's a part of us. Thirty years ago almost none of what we had today existed, but yet it's as if it's always been here. We're growing up in a sick time. Where every human has become detached from humanity. An average person might look at the screen of their phone texting collectively a half-hour to an hour a day. Thats twelve straight days of texting a year. All of this time spent staring at the same individual 3x4' screen. People need to snap out of this dependency.
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Some very thoughtful stuff here. Studies have shown a correlation between depression and screen time (I believe particularly for gaming and internet use). Its fun while you're doing it, but when so much time is spent, you have to wonder. What did I actually accomplish? The goals of a game make sense only within that game world. There is no connection to your own life. If so much time is spent trying to "get to the next level", what does that do to your sense of reality and meaning? What does it do to your connection to the outside world, society, nature? And yes, puppies...
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