This popular, local talk show host in the Cities was commenting one morning a few weeks ago that technology is cold, not emotional warm and communal.
People, especially young adults, are now ensconced in their digital dreamworld, disconnected, without the old, organic neighborhood, human, continual, close-proximity interaction with others, an organic whole, a village-like connectivity. The old warmth is now erased, Bernard laments.
Okay, there is some truth to this.
From my loner perspective, such weakening of herd-grouping may be a blessing in disguise.
If we react negatively and in ignorance--not knowing how to live--this electronic severing of human herd warmth can trigger a mass stampede to mass movement groupism, a cursed outcome.
If we react with understanding and skill to this disruption to our sleepy group-living, we will start to shift from group-living and nonindividuating, transitioning to individual-living and a culture of self-realizing.
Then we can contribute to and grow our high civilization like the Good Spirits did when alive, and now do that they are dead and immortal.
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