Monday, November 21, 2022

November 21, 2022

 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

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