Monday, November 16, 2009

Wow this is a very interesting topic. At first I thought it was a little ridiculous but as I continued to read the article I began to agree with it. The idea of our mind’s being perfected and trained so that our competence becomes more important than our notion is realistically true and all of our actions speak to agree with this idea. Our decisions and beliefs support this theory because of the standard that we place technology in today’s society. For instance, when we think of labor, in our minds it becomes the worst thing possible. An easy escape is what we look for and if we get the opportunity to perfect it then it becomes a habit. For instance, the article states, “What we are all looking for, however, is the ready-made, competent man; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom some one else has trained, that we shall be on the road to national efficiency.” He explains in this claim that we are always trying to discover something that can benefit us in anyway possible because we continue to diminish the mind with lower ideas and standards every day. We want someone to do for us what we can and we’d rather have our problems neat and tidied up and most of all being dealt with by someone else than doing it ourselves. So thus, this idea that google and the internet is controlling our minds by simply renewing rather than creating is something I do agree with because we can not plead that our motifs differ from it when our actions exemplify the complete opposing side.

1 comment:

  1. Wow! Good post! I didn't really think about what you wrote about in your post. About us wanting someone else to do the work for us. Its totally true. We rather not read a book and just go on sparknotes or not read the newspaper and just see a really short article on the internet, or watch someone telling us about it. We are really lazy. We are really smart. We have invented so many things but we invent things to make life easier (which is ok). But we need to understand that there are somethings we can do by ourselves. That we have enough human power to not use the clapper and just flip the switch for the lights. Anyways, good post. : )

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