Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time in The Facebook Sonnet Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time is a theory that shows that when we immerse ourselves in technology for a minute we lose the full experience of that minute. Say, for example someone goes to a concert, and that person spend the whole time filming the concert, but never actually understand the fullness of the experience. They spent the whole time looking through a phone's screen, so they never really got to experience the music and the performers through their own eyes and ears. The theory of Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time is prominent in these lines of The Facebook Sonnet
“Every stage of life is the same? Let’s exhume, resume, and extend childhood.
Let’s all play the games that occupy the young. Let fame and shame intertwine. Let one’s search for God become public domain. Let church.com become our church. Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess here at the altar of loneliness.”
In this quote you see that Sherman Alexie describes a disconnect in today’s society. In his line “Let church.com become our church” he decribes the change in society that is Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time. We as humans don't have time to to do what used to be done. Just as in the example with the …show more content…
“Social media can distract people from reality.” What the quote is saying is that social media can distract people from experiencing things for what they are. In a sense the quote is saying the same thing that the example in the first paragraph is saying. The person misses the experience of the concert because he filmed the concert, and spent his time staring through the phone's screen, and the quote says that social media can distract us from reality because it causes us to lose focus on what is happening around us. This is what Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time
“Every stage of life is the same? Let’s exhume, resume, and extend childhood.
Let’s all play the games that occupy the young. Let fame and shame intertwine. Let one’s search for God become public domain. Let church.com become our church. Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess here at the altar of loneliness.”
In this quote you see that Sherman Alexie describes a disconnect in today’s society. In his line “Let church.com become our church” he decribes the change in society that is Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time. We as humans don't have time to to do what used to be done. Just as in the example with the …show more content…
“Social media can distract people from reality.” What the quote is saying is that social media can distract people from experiencing things for what they are. In a sense the quote is saying the same thing that the example in the first paragraph is saying. The person misses the experience of the concert because he filmed the concert, and spent his time staring through the phone's screen, and the quote says that social media can distract us from reality because it causes us to lose focus on what is happening around us. This is what Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time