Some thoughts on Work, Technology, Human Relationships and Our Terrible Waste of Time: go see the description of this blog!
I had a discussion last night with a couple of friends of mine. Our friendship goes back quite a many year. The topic was again one of the same: girls, booze, human relationships and not to forget technology and its impact on our lifes. One of my friends, Jack, who's always fiercely oppossing technology ,cried out for liberation: "we live in a captive state, fill our lifes with hopes and expectations about future career paths and riches that 'll probably never come our way, and communicate with fellow human beings via the internet while neglecting to create tangible, reall bonds with the people sitting right next to us - the people we can reach our hands and touch them". He went on to criticise the other two of us who had been talking about whether to buy a new Apple Titanium notebook or a second-nad ibook through e-bay. In his words: "Wake Up! Is the laptop the only thing missing from your lifes?" So, what's the point? Certainly, there is no utopia. There 's simply no choice. No remorse. What's left? What's to fill the void? Human relationships matter more than riches and technology - that's for sure. But how do we get to the point where we feel happy? i will not claim I have this answer. But I'm constantly searching to find it. And my preliminary findings show that self-realisation and confidence can be achieved through work (the Silicon Valley was a great example in that regard where doing something meant more than making money). Moreover, even though the Net does not make up for the loss of time that my intimate relationships suffer, it has enabled other more distant relationshp to emerge and has also enabled me to form close bonds with people far outside my human reach. The key is balance? And the question is how good are we in achieving a balance between order and chaos, between Cyber friends and "the boys from the 'hood", between work and pleasure, between smoking pot and getting hammered with Jack Daniels and going to the gym to burn fat? Fuck knows. But I 'm in no way ready to abandon the one thing that contributes to my ego by enhancing my ability to diagnose (even wrongly) the next day to come and most certainly, makes me feel I have a say, that my voice has power and that I'm as powerful as ever. But again, I might just need a woman, a tropical paradise and a tone of ignorance to be happy:-)
3:08:10 PM 
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