Technology

The age of Google, Facebook, games, downloads and other distractions

There is something deeply disturbing about an age that mistakes the idea of ​​progress for trivial distractions. We live in an age of Google, online gaming, Facebook, Instagram, smartphones, and a myriad of distractions that keep us from reflecting on serious issues. In Notes from the Cafe, RF Georgy creates a character with a unique observational perspective. The Cafe Dweller dissects the digital age in such a way that it reduces it, and all of us in the process, to mindless idiots.

Notes from the Cafe is an updated version of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground. In effect, Georgy brings the Underground Man back to judge the information age. In one of dozens of provocative quotes, the Cafe Dweller declares: “Information paints no pictures, sings no songs, and writes no poem.” What Georgy suggests is that the information destroyed the rich language of metaphor and personification. That is, language has been stripped of its once proud identity and reduced to bits of data necessary to adapt to the digital age.

In one of the most disturbing statements, Cafe Dweller declares: “We have become an extension of the technology we create. Have you noticed how people send text messages? They are alien to the world. Do you know that text messages make us Losing wealth? Who the hell cares about language? We have reduced language to its skeletal structure, which is what technology requires. You know what the irony is, gentlemen? these days, we would all be intellectual giants. Unfortunately, we are dumber than a running chicken with its head cut off. “

Skeletal remains are the bits of data we use to navigate our smartphones, laptops, the Internet, and an infinite number of applications. If Dostoevsky told us that twice two is not always four, then Georgy goes further by telling us that we are zero in the denominator of a fraction, “We are the unfortunate zero that exists in the denominator of a fraction. A regrettable fact.” , I grant it to you. Just as zero can be perfectly rational and harmonious, it can also become indefinite and meaningless. ”One might conclude that this is harsh judgment, but perhaps there is some truth to it.

The digital age has given us the illusion of progress. Today we believe that we are perfectly rational beings, ready and prepared to be on top of the mountain of progress. What Georgy reminds us is that we are inherently irrational creatures. Georgy’s Coffee Notes is a densely packed intellectual survey of an age that lacks reflection; a time that is too distracted to know the difference between analysis and reflection.

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