A Manifesto for Slow Communication - John Freeman - WSJ.com
While I disagree with a lot of this, I recommend this essay anyway, as food for thought.
- While I disagree with a lot of this, I recommend this essay anyway, as food for thought. - By David Corking
- How many of our most joyful memories have been created in front of a screen?
- Communicating at great haste hones our utterances down to instincts and impulses that until now have been held back or channeled more carefully.
- But most of us can speak faster than we can type or text, and no-one complained that conversation makes our brains work too fast. - By David Corking
- Our cafes, post offices, parks, cinemas, town centers, main streets and community meeting halls have suffered as a result of this development.
- Really? How many people met strangers in such places? - By David Corking
- The difference between typing an email and writing a letter or memo out by hand is akin to walking on concrete versus strolling on grass.
- A butcher can tell you which cuts of meat are the freshest; an online grocer may not. That same butcher, if he is good, might not just remember your preferences—which an online retailer can do frighteningly well—but ask you how your mother has been doing, whether you caught the latest football game. These interactions remind us that we are more than consumers; they remind us that we are part of the world in a way no amount of online shopping ever will.
- This is right on the money - a visit to a local farm shop is a wonderful experience. - By David Corking
- If we spend our evening online trading short messages over Facebook with friends thousands of miles away rather than going to our local pub or park with a friend, we are effectively withdrawing from the people we could turn to for solace, humor and friendship, not to mention the places we could go to do this. We trade the complicated reality of friendship for its vacuum-packed idea.
- It might be just the way this essay was abridged for the paper, but I cannot see whether the author wants us to spend all evening writing a longhand letter to a distant friend, or ignore them altogether to spend time with a local friend. - By David Corking
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