Thursday, September 11, 2014
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The article by Neil Postman made some very great points, but a couple of his opinions I found straight up incorrect. His first point states that culture always pays a price for technology. I strongly disagree. First, technology has made it possible to spread culture everywhere easily and readily. Normal, non-professional artists, musicians, poets, or creative writers can easily share their work with the world and their work actually gets seen. Websites like Deviantart, Reddit, YouTube, and many others make it possible for us to see truly talented people we wouldn't have before. Technology has also given our generation the most free time then any other time period, allowing us to become amateurs at whatever we want. Now it's not only the geniuses that rule the arts, but there are now many capable people. Technology has widened and diversified culture, not hurt it.
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I definitely felt like he was over the top with his assumptions as well. I do think it is a matter of perspective. There is a reason officials in mainland China regulate their internet so hard; because they believe to much outside influence will tarnish their culture. Or my 65-year-old bishop who believes a culture of directness is dying and a culture of implying through emoticons is rising. All in all If everyone on earth was polled, I believe the overwhelming majority of people would say technology has helped culture.
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