Psychological depending - gadget-free?
Bog
emergence of various hi-tech products: iPod, iBoard, iPhone,
blackberry and blah, blah, blah...
Can we lead a gadget-free living? Our bags are becoming heavier every
time we go out. Before stepping out to the sidewalk, you would do:
PSP, checked
iPod, checked
cell-phone, checked
Psychological many developed a dependence on these gadgets and once
one of them is lost, it's like the end of the world. The heart was
fissured.
Is there anything we can do to deal with this kind of sickness?
Regards.
M Winther
"Bog" <bog.l...@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet news:ce4639d6-4752-4517...@l24g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
It seems like we are undergoing a regress the archaic religious stage
of fetishism. In my country the cellular is popularly called 'nalle',
which means teddy bear. There is a spirit in the little gadget whom
the person can speak to, and who can protect him. I live in a very
secularized country, and I am perplexed by these archaic sentiments in
modern guise. I live close to a cemetery, and people often sit there
and mourn their dead relatives, at places where they have spread their
ashes. They resent other people who tread on this holy ground.
Suddenly they have become very religious again, but they resort to
ancestor spirit cult, which is archaic religion. They should carry
their sorrow in their heart instead, and go back to worshipping Jesus.
It's quite natural to plant flowers at a grave, but this archaic
religious sentiment is perverse. God is a god for the living, not for
the dead.
Generally, when people loose their sophisticated religion, they
regress to vulgar archaic religion, including such degenerate
ideologies as Communism, Welfarism (very topical, today), etc. It
seems like people are becoming more and more neurotic as their
world is becoming more and more fragmentary and disharmonious.
Mats
Frito Pendejo
Psychology is the modern religion, and serves the same purpose as
traditional religion by justifying the status quo. Since the modern
status quo is corporatism and consumerism, the purchase and use of
gadgets would be defined as "normal" by psychology, and those who don't
purchase and use them must suffer from some "disorder."
The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the
extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the
System, and does so without showing signs of stress. Since the System
depends on the continuous sale of gadgets to keep the economy expanding,
those who refuse to use gadgets must be forcibly "treated" to cure their
"sickness."