I could read Yuri Testikov's latest. I'd bring my Kindle or Willard Organizer to read it on! Or maybe it's available on reading for the blind Books on Tape.
Posted on 12/17/2022 1:03:53 PM PST by simpson96
On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly meeting of the Luddite Club, a high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology.(snip)
They marched up a hill toward their usual spot, a dirt mound located far from the park’s crowds.(snip)
After the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity.
Some drew in sketchbooks. Others painted with a watercolor kit. One of them closed their eyes to listen to the wind. Many read intently—the books in their satchels included Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” Art Spiegelman’s “Maus II” and “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius. The club members cite libertine writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac as heroes, and they have a fondness for works condemning technology, like “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut. Arthur, the bespectacled PBS aardvark, is their mascot.
“Lots of us have read this book called ‘Into the Wild,’” said Lola Shub, a senior at Essex Street Academy, referring to Jon Krakauer’s 1996 nonfiction book about the nomad Chris McCandless, who died while trying to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. “We’ve all got this theory that we’re not just meant to be confined to buildings and work. And that guy was experiencing life. Real life. Social media and phones are not real life.”
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Briefly, the club members discussed how the spreading of their Luddite gospel was going. Founded last year by another Murrow High School student, Logan Lane, the club is named after Ned Ludd, the folkloric 18th-century English textile worker who supposedly smashed up a mechanized loom, inspiring others to take up his name and riot against industrialization.
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Ya, McCandless ‘experienced life’ right up until he starved to death.
Good on ditching social media
Boo for looking to a complete dumbass that managed to kill himself in a slow, painful way....
I don’t know. I think they’re on something. These kids are getting out, getting fresh air, getting exercise, making real friends in the real world. I think this will work out for them.
Sounds promising. Who knows, maybe the youngest generation will get us out the progressive crap brought on since 2008. Unplugging from social media can be nothing but good.
Read a book, fish, hunt, indulge in the outdoors like gen x and older did.
I like it.
Psssh! It’ll never catch on.
I could read Yuri Testikov's latest. I'd bring my Kindle or Willard Organizer to read it on! Or maybe it's available on reading for the blind Books on Tape.
So, they aren't abandoning modern technology altogether. Maybe putting social media and all the potential addictions of the internet into perspective is a more realistic goal. The internet is a fabulous tool for many purposes. People need to find a balance between real life interaction with others and use of the internet.
“War, What Is It Good For?”
Lol...
It consumes way too many kids and young adults in ways they realize makes them miserable and stupid, but they can’t break away from it.
Some parents manage to protect their kids from it and obviously some kids can manage to do that for themselves, but for most they’d be better off without phones at all and if they at least didn’t have access to them at school.
Often it is lazy parents who don’t want to discipline themselves to be organized like parents were before we had mobile phones. They sacrifice their kids for their own convenience — or to make sure their kids like them more than they get the parenting they need.
I agree with what you say. This is something like prior generations of kids who spent too much time staring at the TV, except this is several times worse. And kids need protection from all the real dangers that exist on the internet, beyond the wasted time and substituting online attractions for participating in real life.
It’ll take parents and schools to keep things in balance and some strict enforcement on the use of personal smart phones.
And real death.
By starvation.
Do they think the clothes they buy from China is made of cloth woven by Chinese sitting in front of hand looms?
Ditching social media is sort of “Going Galt in place.”
Yes, the shortened attention spans and lack of knowledge from never reading anything of depth are really crippling. Per usual it hurts the marginal student-types more than the more fortunate, but it is harming the entire generation.
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