In isolation, we often can see the truth of something that has plagued our minds with doubt and inconsistency. Today, I see young people and older people becoming increasingly isolated.
They stare down at the screens of their smart phones
as though hypnotized, irrespective of where they are, or whatever they are
doing. They could be sitting on the white sands of a beach, a gorgeous sunset
taking place right in front of them, and they can't be bothered to lift their
eyes to glance at it. If they are sitting on
that beach with others, the others are, likewise, hypnotized by their glowing
screens.
Is this a bad thing? I really don't know, but I can't say that I disapprove.
Isaac Asimov argued that we, as a culture, are
evolving into a specialized form of human beings known as "Spacers",
who prefer living alone on large plantations on other planets, attended by
hundreds of robots, but keeping other humans at bay, and unwilling to engage in
any human contact except by phone, or computer monitor.It is possible that we may be seeing, perhaps, the
emergence of the spacer in our own time and on our own world.
For more speculations such as these, please check out
my two books; they are both committed to seeing the truth of things that have
plagued human minds with doubt & inconsistency.
JLS
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157863587X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i0
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/178904510X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i1
