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Plato Distance Essay

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Joey Cisakowski
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Senior Composition
2 February 2015
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1. Plato- Distance
Plato wrote about how Ancient Greece goes through a new revolutionary form of communication. This new form of communication was the art of writing and reading. Just like today people were obsessed with this new form of socializing and became dependent on it. Socrates and other Greeks became so dependent that they forgot like us how important it was to stop, think and reflect alone about important things. Instead of writing, today’s dramatic technological change is social media. It is changing how we act so we are dependent on or screens where we forget to talk to people or reflect on our life, its acts as a crutch making us not feel safe when …show more content…

Technology keeps telling us that it is making our lives easier but in reality it is made them just busier with having too much stuff to do. Our society is in need to be strengthened by strengthening our inwardness while embracing the importance of technology. People need to turn into themselves and think about their spirituality. They problem is our need for pointless technology is turning us in the opposite direction, making it almost impossible to have any time to think inward. People need to tune out the social media and look into themselves to see if they are really happy. Even though technology is very important for our society we need time just with you away from all of the technology to just reflect on our lives and …show more content…

This applies to the use of technology because people should have different zones for all of these appliances like a T.V. room or a computer room. This separates the different types of technology making you enjoy each one at different times so you can enjoy all of it instead of using your phone for half of the movie and watching the other half making you unable to receive a full experience of each. People should also not socialize and text at the same time because you can't focus on both at the same time which blocks out the person trying to talk to you.

7. McLuhan - Lower the Inner Thermostat
We need to take time and cool ourselves down and escape from our busy life. Each individual way we escape does not have to be huge it just has to be a step in the right direction. Some examples of taking a small step in the right direction is not watching T.V. while you cook dinner and eat at the table with your family instead to watching T.V. and eating. People need time to relax and hangout with there family instead of being glued to their phones. Improve your lives by having family hikes or activities where you cannot use your phone so you might have time to relax and talk to your friends and family.

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