Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
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I looked up this fucking NY Times article and it's so tone deaf.
These parents hand ringing that their son, who because of the pandemic cannot socialize in person and is therefore using games and his phone to socialize electronically. The son says that playing games helped him cope with the death of his dog. His mother, concerned, says "What are you going to do when you're married and stressed? Tell your wife that you need to play Xbox?" Umm... yeah? Sounds totally reasonable? What are we, back in the 90s? Lots of people use video games to cope with stress! There are highly paid professionals who come home and use their games to unwind! Fuck these motherfuckers.
They're even asking what they could do to get the kid off the screen, suggesting, "knit?" and I'm thinking, yeah did you know there are YouTube channels that teach you to knit oh wait SCREEN TIME BAD I forgot.
The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.
Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.
The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.
Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.
It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.
For an actual ancient critique of writing... Socrates argues against it in Phaedrus, I guess?
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The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.
Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.
After I wrote that post I actually looked for the quote about how children with paper are losing the art of the slate, and found that the quotes that have circulated about that were made up in the (19)80s. So I retract the comment about slates, but the XKCD comic posted by Neveron gives some good examples of other technology that were predicted to ruin us all by their convenience.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
now, to be fair, while Socrates complains about writing in Phaedrus it's mostly just because he's annoyed about not being able to have a conversation with the author about the subject
I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker always gives one unvarying answer. And when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves.
however, keep in mind that he's still talking about this some thousand years after Homer wrote his Illiad, it's not exactly a new thing he's complaining about. we don't really have complaints about writing from the actual invention of writing for obvious reasons.
Stuff like this makes me feel better about so resistant to change, feeling old and behind the times, etc etc. Because at least I'm adapting better to this century than that.
(now get off, uh, the lawn I don't have because owning my own home? ahahahaha)
You can pass a note on slate and then immediately erase it if the headmistress sees. Cant quickly erase your fancy ink quill cursive shits hella permanent. Slate is also very satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall is paper satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall? I propose it is, in fact, not at all satisfying to smash over a head or against a wall. Also slate is just dumb rocks probably whereas paper is a tree that has to be killed to make it.
Lotta pros in the slate category here is alls I'm saying.
You can pass a note on slate and then immediately erase it if the headmistress sees. Cant quickly erase your fancy ink quill cursive shits hella permanent. Slate is also very satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall is paper satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall? I propose it is, in fact, not at all satisfying to smash over a head or against a wall. Also slate is just dumb rocks probably whereas paper is a tree that has to be killed to make it.
Lotta pros in the slate category here is alls I'm saying.
Listen here you sedimentary elitist, you talk a big game but you got nothing on a proper wax tablet; infinitely reusable – none of that scratch-in nonsense you get with slate, scales to any size much more economically and, best of all, totally silent. Plus you can create a permanent record of your work by simply filling the case with clay slurry and letting it dry. You try that with your petrified foolishness and see where that gets you.
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I looked up this fucking NY Times article and it's so tone deaf.
These parents hand ringing that their son, who because of the pandemic cannot socialize in person and is therefore using games and his phone to socialize electronically. The son says that playing games helped him cope with the death of his dog. His mother, concerned, says "What are you going to do when you're married and stressed? Tell your wife that you need to play Xbox?" Umm... yeah? Sounds totally reasonable? What are we, back in the 90s? Lots of people use video games to cope with stress! There are highly paid professionals who come home and use their games to unwind! Fuck these motherfuckers.
They're even asking what they could do to get the kid off the screen, suggesting, "knit?" and I'm thinking, yeah did you know there are YouTube channels that teach you to knit oh wait SCREEN TIME BAD I forgot.
The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.
You're for PC!
Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.
It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.
For an actual ancient critique of writing... Socrates argues against it in Phaedrus, I guess?
After I wrote that post I actually looked for the quote about how children with paper are losing the art of the slate, and found that the quotes that have circulated about that were made up in the (19)80s. So I retract the comment about slates, but the XKCD comic posted by Neveron gives some good examples of other technology that were predicted to ruin us all by their convenience.
(now get off, uh, the lawn I don't have because owning my own home? ahahahaha)
You can pass a note on slate and then immediately erase it if the headmistress sees. Cant quickly erase your fancy ink quill cursive shits hella permanent. Slate is also very satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall is paper satisfying to smash over someone's head or against a wall? I propose it is, in fact, not at all satisfying to smash over a head or against a wall. Also slate is just dumb rocks probably whereas paper is a tree that has to be killed to make it.
Lotta pros in the slate category here is alls I'm saying.
Listen here you sedimentary elitist, you talk a big game but you got nothing on a proper wax tablet; infinitely reusable – none of that scratch-in nonsense you get with slate, scales to any size much more economically and, best of all, totally silent. Plus you can create a permanent record of your work by simply filling the case with clay slurry and letting it dry. You try that with your petrified foolishness and see where that gets you.
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