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I'm getting tired of flagging him now. Might just call it a night. It's 1 in the morning here anyway.
King Kong 80th anniversary
A beautiful anthem on a hot sunny summer day, June 6th, National Day of Sweden! :)
Wow, hard to believe it has been a year already since the last celebration! Enjoy yourself, mate! :)
"Technology and media are not uniting the world. They pretend to provide a world that is inter-netted; but in reality, all they deliver is a simulated world of shadows. Accordingly they make our human world more anonymous and lonely."
--ANAM CARA
Can we discuss this please as I think that there's something in this, really. For all those who are burnt out by the online world, such as myself.
This is a good topic to discuss. I wish I had more time now.
I'll just say that I think the world's communication processes and the way it is used (mainly thinking of internet at the moment, but regular newspapers and magazines as well) has been having a negative, and I feel deadening, effect on people, our world. And it has been perhaps rather subtle over the past 10 years, but gathering impact. By that I mean, there is so much being spewed out for all to read and discuss - anonymously often - and genuinely research news stories are becoming as rare as fossils - and that does chip away at our human spirit, doesn't it? People can post anything. Our ears and eyes are flooded daily, bombarded really, almost no matter where we go. It is deadening, deceptive, and ugly. There is so much crap, false information, and less than good intentions (to put it mildly) truly flooding our brains ... more and more every day. It is pervasive and depressing at times.
I'll write more later. I'll ask you this: What can you do, or want to do, to keep yourself from being overly saturated with all the b.s. and crap and waste and falsity that is poured into our senses? Is this uniting? Is it a shadow world and alienating? I am really interested in how others feel about this and what they are doing to help themselves. So, thanks to all who respond, even briefly.
Well, wow, @4EverBonded! Thanks so much for that. I seem to have struck a nerve here with posting my little jotted down quote! Just as I had intended. I'll mull over your questions and response and get back to you again with a deeper response, my dear.
10 yrs since Trevor Goddard died......
MK has several similarities with Enter Dragon :
Liu Kang = Lee
Shang Tsung = Han
Kano = O'Harra
Goro = Bolo
Tania = Kitana
Art Lean = Williams
-both have tournaments on an island
I fight the tech by not using a smart phone. The web though I do find invaluable, but I am happy to only be connected when I am home or at work.
That way I disconnect, when out and about, however I will lug around a kindle because on-line books and on-line newspaper subscriptions are very practical, not to mention more up-to-date, more convenient and cheaper then actual daily newsprint offerings.
No smart-phone is only temporary though. My work doesn't require me to have one rightnow, but that's not likely to last. For now I just pretend I have one. Messages go to voice-mail and people don't know it's a land-line.
I am also surrounded in an environment where people speak a language I do not know. That is really de-stressing, too. Those things all help.
Very interesting. May I ask which country you are in @4EverBonded. PM me if you don't wish to reveal it here. Stick with the BBC. I only have a practical phone too, which I rarely use. It seems we have much in common then. I've kind of stopped watching TV too.
Now I have pared down to one job I love: teaching. I have a lovely home; I live with two friends in an old Japanese house halfway up a nice hill, overlooking the Seto Inland Sea in the distance. I am slowly saving money. I start an even better job July 1st, in my town here (have been commuting 1 hour one way, for nearly 2 years now). So my stress has lessened greatly and that does boost my health.
I had a Canadian co-worker, here one year, who had traveled all over Europe and Asia and she mentioned to me one day, "It's so relaxing being in a place where you don't speak the language." And I smiled. I got that; some people really don't understand it. But either it can frustrates you or it relaxes you.
So yes, I read BBC and the internet for news. But even with that, it is easy to read very grim and depressing stories and headlines. However, it is way better than having far too much information thrown at me over airwaves or my surroundings on a daily basis. I find that I take everything with a nice big grain of salt these days, info I read about; it has become more and more like wading through a swamp of crap. I follow one blog and have a few favorite websites to enjoy, but this Bond site is my only forum.
I think most people have to be more connected than I am. But disconnecting from the mainstream constant overload of communication, much of it ugly or false, has really helped me.
I am interested in what you, and other members here, do to help yourselves, regarding overloading of your senses and all the junk that passes for "news" these days.
I guess I could subscribe to MLB.com and NHL. com and NFL.com and IndyCar.com, but all the subscriptions would probably cost way more than the monthly cable-bill.
I think us sportsfans are stuck with our cable bills.
I like the internet. I can get news from it, I can check the football scores, I can catch up on TV on it, I can talk to my fellow <a href="http://mi6community.com/">Bond fans</a> and <a href="http://www.drumchat.com/home.php">drummers</a>, as well as tons of other stuff.
I like my mobile. It's much easier to keep in touch with people than before and I can play poker on it now too.
I also like TV. Granted much of it is awful nowadays but there are still tons of shows I enjoy and there's always sport (mainly football and boxing) if nothing else.
I agree that we get lots of crap as a result of these mediums and that it makes people lazy, but I just ignore the crap and don't allow myself to get lazy (I stay in shape and make sure I don't rely on technology too much).
I agree that technology can be, and is, extremely useful. And staying in shape, not being locked into just sitting at a screen, is of course really important to all around (including mental) health. So it sounds like you've got your own way of dealing with all of this.