I was very drawn to and amused by William Deresiewicz’s essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “The End of Solitude.” The main thesis of the story is asking a question about what has prompted our dwindling desire for solitude. Once considered an expression of personal freedom or even a pleasure, just the thought of being alone nowadays is met with anxiety and evasion. I 'm not going to dismiss Deresiewicz as another Luddite technophobe, because his work is more nuanced than that. Instead, I will focus on bit selection, hoping to engage people in a dialogue about the blessings and dangers of the electronic age.
Deresiewicz begins with a three-way comparison between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism (in its broadest sense as …show more content…
not you can hear God when people chat to you. "In fact, if you can hear God at all, I suggest you need serious psychiatric care, and in any case, if being alone is a spiritual experience reserved for a few people elected, then we do not need to worry about the fact that modern technology is making it (allegedly) impossible for the …show more content…
Let 's start with the latter. Idleness is a state in which human beings are sometimes say if they have the luxury of not working, or perhaps - at the other extreme - because they have been laid off from work. Deresiewicz sees idleness in romantic terms, and believes it is a positive thing, a refuge from constantly having to do something. Boredom, on the contrary, is a state of mind that can overcome those forced to remain idle, and has a clearly negative connotation. The point is that idleness does not necessarily mean boredom; can generate positive or negative emotions, depending on the circumstances and your mood. (Full disclosure: I always find myself bored when they are at a minimum in order to avoid the condition as if it were the plague.)
The situation is similar to Deresiewicz, in the case of loneliness and solitude. He thinks that loneliness is something that human beings should love, and that the assimilation of modern loneliness loneliness confusing a state of being that can be happy with a negative emotion that significant. If you spend a lot of time blogging, Facebook-ing, texting, email, and so on, then, can be confused with loneliness loneliness, and put yourself in the situation of not being able to enjoy the second of fear the
Deresiewicz begins with a three-way comparison between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism (in its broadest sense as …show more content…
not you can hear God when people chat to you. "In fact, if you can hear God at all, I suggest you need serious psychiatric care, and in any case, if being alone is a spiritual experience reserved for a few people elected, then we do not need to worry about the fact that modern technology is making it (allegedly) impossible for the …show more content…
Let 's start with the latter. Idleness is a state in which human beings are sometimes say if they have the luxury of not working, or perhaps - at the other extreme - because they have been laid off from work. Deresiewicz sees idleness in romantic terms, and believes it is a positive thing, a refuge from constantly having to do something. Boredom, on the contrary, is a state of mind that can overcome those forced to remain idle, and has a clearly negative connotation. The point is that idleness does not necessarily mean boredom; can generate positive or negative emotions, depending on the circumstances and your mood. (Full disclosure: I always find myself bored when they are at a minimum in order to avoid the condition as if it were the plague.)
The situation is similar to Deresiewicz, in the case of loneliness and solitude. He thinks that loneliness is something that human beings should love, and that the assimilation of modern loneliness loneliness confusing a state of being that can be happy with a negative emotion that significant. If you spend a lot of time blogging, Facebook-ing, texting, email, and so on, then, can be confused with loneliness loneliness, and put yourself in the situation of not being able to enjoy the second of fear the