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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I view it differently. I live away from all my family and friends. When I visit them both in Canada and overseas, they can't help themselves but go on their phones to see whats new or to text other friends and family, or to show me the newest cat video on youtube.
So while you are alone, yes, you are more connected in this day and age more than ever. However, I think the connectedness is leading more and more people to seek out being alone. I.e.: they'd RATHER text/email/digitally communicate than actually talk and or meet up.
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What polak doesn't understand, and that is an understatement, is that all technology has good things, and bad things.
EDIT: One of my favourite writers, Peter Lawler, has a great essay on one of my favourite, and indeed, greatest, comedians, Louis C.K. Keep in mind, Lawler is also a CATHOLIC.
http://bigthink.com/rightly-understo...he-smart-phone
As we gain more, we also lose some things. The point of being an intelligent person is to understand both sides.
Look at the Hikikomori in Japan, a phenomenon spreading across the world, as more and more young people CHOOSE a life of alienation and diversion through technology. Look at the rise in ED in men under 25 that is almost certainly linked to the absolute immersive presence of pornography.
As for religion, no that did not cause the Dark Ages. That would be the collapse of the Roman Empire, an irreducibly complex event that was the result of massive waves of immigration, corruption, spiritual loss...
Religion was omnipresent during medieval times, but there was never an "Age of Faith," nor did the Church form anything close to a political entity. Mainly because Christianity doesn't really mesh to well with politics.