Monday, November 21
George Will: Manners and virtue in a modern world
Do read the whole thing...
"With everyone chatting on cell phones when not floating in iPod-land, 'this is an age of social autism, in which people just can't see the value of imagining their impact on others.' We are entertaining ourselves into inanition. (There are Web sites for people with Internet addiction. Think about that.) And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable 'limitless self-absorption,'' which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and anti-social.
(...) So says Lynne Truss in her latest trumpet-blast of a book, Talk to the Hand
The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door."
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Of course, one reason people hide in plain sight with their iPods and so forth is because they're trying to block out other people's pre-existing rudeness to begin with. If Apple came up with an iNose for smells, they'd really be doing something.
"With everyone chatting on cell phones when not floating in iPod-land, 'this is an age of social autism, in which people just can't see the value of imagining their impact on others.' We are entertaining ourselves into inanition. (There are Web sites for people with Internet addiction. Think about that.) And multiplying technologies of portable entertainments will enable 'limitless self-absorption,'' which will make people solipsistic, inconsiderate and anti-social.
(...) So says Lynne Truss in her latest trumpet-blast of a book, Talk to the Hand
The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door."***
Of course, one reason people hide in plain sight with their iPods and so forth is because they're trying to block out other people's pre-existing rudeness to begin with. If Apple came up with an iNose for smells, they'd really be doing something.
