AHAHAHA apparently the internet will make us uncreative
Internet: makes you less creative!
Apparently people who "optimise their ability to multi-task online" are going to be unable to concentrate on anything, ever! People who spend lots of time online lose their ability for introspection! Being online discourages you to think deeply. People who spend lots of time online will lose their creativity and their ability to perform long-form acts of creative writing (or presumably other art, but this is a writing blog).
So, how's that novel coming along,
bedlamsbard? Feeling uncreative yet,
toft,
such_heights?
I would like to make some ironic comment about the fact that we never think deeply about anything, no, not us who use the internet, not at all, with a few choice links. But I won't. Go look at the latest round of the Great Warnings Debate: full of drama and misunderstandings and occasional wank, but you can't say that that we, collectively, are guilty of *not thinking deeply enough*.
Here's the thing about the internet, though: no one thinks alone. No one creates alone - not just in fandom, but in etsy and ravelry and all the writing and art comms out there. People share, collaborate, bounce off one another.
This blogger, Writer Unboxed? Her vision of creativity, depth of thought, insight: it all relies on one individual, sitting alone in a room and coming up with Thoughts. Creations. Which she will then deliver to society at large.
Strangely, she seems to consider Life to be just that, an individual alone. We need to spend a lot of time offline. Alone with our thoughts. Steeped in life.
Which is funny. Usually people tell us to get offline, hang out with Real People and develop a Life.
Eta: Also, monofocus is the key to productivity, creativity and Deep Thoughts. Neurotypical privilege much?
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Apparently people who "optimise their ability to multi-task online" are going to be unable to concentrate on anything, ever! People who spend lots of time online lose their ability for introspection! Being online discourages you to think deeply. People who spend lots of time online will lose their creativity and their ability to perform long-form acts of creative writing (or presumably other art, but this is a writing blog).
So, how's that novel coming along,
bedlamsbard? Feeling uncreative yet,
toft,
such_heights?
I would like to make some ironic comment about the fact that we never think deeply about anything, no, not us who use the internet, not at all, with a few choice links. But I won't. Go look at the latest round of the Great Warnings Debate: full of drama and misunderstandings and occasional wank, but you can't say that that we, collectively, are guilty of *not thinking deeply enough*.
Here's the thing about the internet, though: no one thinks alone. No one creates alone - not just in fandom, but in etsy and ravelry and all the writing and art comms out there. People share, collaborate, bounce off one another.
This blogger, Writer Unboxed? Her vision of creativity, depth of thought, insight: it all relies on one individual, sitting alone in a room and coming up with Thoughts. Creations. Which she will then deliver to society at large.
Strangely, she seems to consider Life to be just that, an individual alone. We need to spend a lot of time offline. Alone with our thoughts. Steeped in life.
Which is funny. Usually people tell us to get offline, hang out with Real People and develop a Life.
Eta: Also, monofocus is the key to productivity, creativity and Deep Thoughts. Neurotypical privilege much?
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