My ability to memorize and to think independently has deteriorated with my constant exposure to the Internet. No longer do I need to memorize what I've just read and arduously search for the information. I can now just enter some key words relating to what I forgot, and in seconds to minutes, I can pull up the forgotten information forgot. With such a massive wealth of information at my fingertips, there is very little incentive to remember much things.
My ability to think independently has also been compromised by the Internet. Whatever viewpoint I wish to choose, I can find countless argument arguing for it. Anything can be rationalized, and the innumerable rationalizations that can be found on the Internet has caused me to become intellectually amorphous -- I have no strong beliefs about anything -- and since anything can be rationalized, nothing is really worth believing in strongly. I do have certain whims of ideas I loosely ascribe to, but those whimsy ideas fade away as new whimsy ideas are acquired. Perhaps my everchaging whimsy mind is a good thing? It keeps on my toes and constantly wondering about the world? I don't know, I just feel that I am just becoming more mindless and zombie-like because I just don't have strong beliefs and every viewpoint seems plausible.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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