After I saw this, I put down my phone and didn't pick it up for the rest of the day... A touching 2 minute video about the sad reality of why we are not living in the moment.
Posted by Sahil Khan on Tuesday, 7 January 2014
These distracting electronic companions not only cut down on our empathy close up, but also further away. They give us all this information about each other that we are overwhelmed to keep up with, and thus desensitized to act on. And what's more, the support system for our gadgets comes from extracted resources in the poorest countries worldwide to give us longer battery life, so we can keep ignoring our family members and friends along with broader issues of socio-economic equity. Yet we will use these same gadgets to #Occupy comment threads of protest about the cold inequalities of global connectedness. It's all just plain nuts. We are living the ultimate dissonance. #ExistentialQuicksand I call it. And so simple a thing to just turn the phone off. Remarkably our lives don't end when we do! This is why it is becoming so radical to courageously live the way our grandparents did - plugged out. Even now I feel anxiety typing this here. But is blogging one in the same? No, right? Ugh...deep guilty sigh.
