Pontifications

“In the last few years, a seemingly banal question of lifestyle hygiene – how much time, attention, and energy to devote to the screens of our digital devices – has somehow become overloaded with all sorts of angsty philosophical baggage. In those same few years, I’ve become an increasingly vocal critic of a particular reaction to that angst that I’ve labeled waldenponding, a broad tendency to retreat from, and artificially limit, digital life. I’ve gone from thinking of it as an annoying but mostly harmless tendency to viewing it as an actively dangerous one.” <— read the whole thing Against Waldenponding II
Previously: Ribbonfarm: Against waldenponding aka against unplugging for self-care aka instead become part of the giant social computer in the cloud (GSCITC)