Ian Frazier In Praise Of Margins Summary

In Praise of Margins
“In Praise of Margin” by Ian Frazier, Frazier reflects on his childhood to manifest the importance of margins, which involve any type of activity having no certain purpose to. In his case, it is the woods. He concludes that these activities are very important to our ordinary lives, providing some sort of comfort. He continues to argue that marginal activities should continue to be done; he provides an amount of examples of the wonders these marginal activities provide to kids at such a young age. But as time progresses we slowly begin to lose interest of these marginal activities. Frazier believes that these activities serve as a getaway for us to relax and not worry about anything. With our comfort zone, we can escape …show more content…
They just seem to have valuable fun. Our minds are empty not needing to worry about anything; we are nurtured from the very beginning, by our parents teaching us good from bad learning how to speak in complete sentences or the very least say mom or dad. We have no job; everything is taken care of, decisions are already made for us, so what is a good way to actually use our time since we have not been given any responsibilities? That is when marginal activities come into play and create a solution by making us more productive than just being couch potatoes and wasting our time on social media, or simply doing …show more content…
According to Nicholas Carr, this is how the world is now. We are now beginning to be addicted to technology. There is no peaceful spot on the internet, because we constantly open up multiple tabs watching video after video. With the immense advancement of technology has us captive drowning our awareness, thoughts, and feelings as if we lose all our humanity. Yet the more we continue this lifestyle eventually we will become accustomed to it, and eventually do nothing but waste our time on the