{"id":267,"date":"2014-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/post-260-whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:00:00","slug":"post-260-whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/post-260-whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-260: What’s Wrong With This Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"
A philosopher asks what’s wrong with a picture<\/a> of teenagers (presumably American) in an art museum who are — Ah, let me just repost the picture:
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It seems they’d rather stare at frivolous content on tiny screens rather than have a look at these great works of art.<\/p>\n

Some will say we can’t blame them; maybe they don’t really like art (that’s okay, isn’t it?); maybe they already looked at the pictures and are resting; and so on. The fact is, though, that t<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>hese kinds of museums (among other places) were once a kind of hallowed ground, and represented an awe-inspiring experience. One was to treat them reverentially. This would very likely be greatly diminished by widespread and constant use of “mobile devices”.
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Most of us (in rich countries) now spend much or most of our waking lives in the “virtual\/digital” sphere in some way (see #250<\/a>); some people have come to cocoon themselves inside the virtual world and hardly “exist” outside it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> This is troubling. If the purpose of life is authentic experience, existing in a virtual bubble world may seriously diminish it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The virtual world can be a poor substitute for the real in important ways.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> It can also enhance it, if done right, but I am not sure how to ensure that or even what it means to do it right.<\/p>\n

I resisted getting a smartphone until the very end of 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>(See #22<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, which was a real shock to Koreans by 2012 and 2013. I told myself it was because of money, but really I think it was because of philosophical principle. In my nearly nine months in Germany and Estonia in 2007, I somehow existed with no phone at all. Can you believe that? It’s hard to imagine now. I occasionally had to make phone calls and did so using pay phones. Pay phone? Yes. You may remember: Telephones, often in free-standing little booths, in public places. You dropped in coins to make a call…
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