nightcats's Journal: The Device is Not Your God

I walk nearly every day, and I see them everywhere I go: the young, strong, potentially vibrant bodies, shuffling along the street like broken old men in a nursing home, staring blankly into the Device.

I want to call out to them, to warn them: do not become slaves to Connectivity so that you forget how to communicate. Learn to connect with yourself, and the Device will find its small and proper place in your life. Remember the words of Krishnamurti:

Technical knowledge, however necessary, will in no way resolve our inner, psychological pressures and conflicts; and it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technical knowledge has become a means of destroying ourselves. The man who knows how to split the atom but has no love in his heart becomes a monster...