I look upon my past in the days of youthfulness in hopes of remembering what it once meant to live. I’m now seventy years old—I am by no means the same seventy year old my grandparents, nor my parents were. I find myself writing today looking outside my living room window, of my sub-standard house. I never knew why I chose to stay in Saint John. Everything is grey—the people, the buildings, the fog. One side of town has been quartered off for the rich innovators of my time so that they could live extravagant lives. My father always forewarned when I was a boy that our constant stream of discovering new things without the ability to socialize to them properly will yield horrible results. As it would turn out, he was right. I write this entry today feeling rather gutted by my own path of loneliness and isolation.
Knowledge is power—too much knowledge creates cynicism. Being anti-social as a result of our strides in technology has limited my life, and weakened my ability to prevent …show more content…
I never know what will happen from one day to the next. It goes to further reinforce my rationale for mistrust. We have grown too reliant on technology in our lives. I like old movies—one in particular, “The Great Dictator” features Charlie Chaplin. Though it makes fun of Adolf Hitler, I wish society had gained from it’s merits sooner. In 1940, he describes the television and the radio as devices that would bring us closer together. He anticipated that they would make us more compassionate people, and little did he know he’d be wrong. The very nature of these inventions did in fact make things substantially more convenient. They did, however, divide us due to a few cruel people. His message still resonates with me in the cold shell of a person I once was. My hope has gone even though it lives on through my untimely passion for watching these old films. Mr. Chaplain may not have been around when I was young, but he did exist in my
Knowledge is power—too much knowledge creates cynicism. Being anti-social as a result of our strides in technology has limited my life, and weakened my ability to prevent …show more content…
I never know what will happen from one day to the next. It goes to further reinforce my rationale for mistrust. We have grown too reliant on technology in our lives. I like old movies—one in particular, “The Great Dictator” features Charlie Chaplin. Though it makes fun of Adolf Hitler, I wish society had gained from it’s merits sooner. In 1940, he describes the television and the radio as devices that would bring us closer together. He anticipated that they would make us more compassionate people, and little did he know he’d be wrong. The very nature of these inventions did in fact make things substantially more convenient. They did, however, divide us due to a few cruel people. His message still resonates with me in the cold shell of a person I once was. My hope has gone even though it lives on through my untimely passion for watching these old films. Mr. Chaplain may not have been around when I was young, but he did exist in my