Daily Archives: Sunday, 9 May 2010

I hold that we can lead a meaningful life only insofar as we are the author of our lives. And it is not possible to be the author of our lives if we become the sort of creatures who have tremendous propensity to satisfy our impulses immediately. The best available evidence suggests that the enormous availability of technology is increasingly giving rise to just that propensity. Adults, who wants had self-discipline, are continually turning up empty with respect to self-discipline; and many children will never know it. We surely findable objectionable the idea that human beings should be subservient to other human beings. Not much changes in terms of things being objectionable if human beings become subservient to technology instead, as will surely happen given the widespread absence of self-discipline in the face of technology on the part of human beings. Continue reading →