In the meantime there's a post I've been meaning to write for a while and didn't get around to before I went offline.
But I'm going to write that post some other time.
In the spirit of Walden I'd like to submit my thoughts on living without technology for several weeks.
First off, I didn't. I had my phone and access to public computers. The big difference was that I didn't sit down with the sole intention of writing something.
So much of technology today is used to give us an audience. Many people you meet today are performers, people who choose to live their lives while being observed by other people.
We post small life events and take photographs of scenes we barely even thought to be a part of. We are never not aware of what someone else is thinking of us.
Is this bad? not necessarily, but this awareness puts undue pressure on our day to day existence.
Writing of the kind that I'm doing now is fun for many reasons, but one of the biggest motivations is that you are as much your own audience as your readers. You aren't presenting your life; you're expressing your mind. I find that to be a far more liberating enterprise, and while it's not as much fun to look at as pictures of a vacation to St. Petersburg, it's at least as enjoyable as looking at a picture of your friends at Starbucks.
In other words I'm glad my laptop is charging again.
Happy reading!
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