tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post3564487766605206432..comments2023-10-04T11:35:50.986-04:00Comments on Out of the Jungle: Summer Movie ReviewJames Milleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368391001719650329noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post-7671353324743620352007-07-10T12:25:00.000-04:002007-07-10T12:25:00.000-04:00Dear Jackie, Although we are unfortunately in t...Dear Jackie,<BR/> Although we are unfortunately in the same class as the bloggers you worry about, being bloggers ourselves, I really enjoyed your post! I, too, worry about what seems to me to be profound shifts in our culture. People like you and me who read and think more deeply and value personal connections in the physical world, are perhaps becoming anachronisms. <BR/><BR/>I can tell you, though, that the young folks coming along, are not all the same. There are still teenagers and young adults who think deeply and engage in the real world. They have vivid internal lives, in your great phrase. But enough people are living a life at one remove from physical reality that it is really shifting our culture. <BR/><BR/>I really want people to think about these changes. We can't move the clock back and push the technology underlying these shift back into some box. But we can, and should think about how to adjust the way we raise children and teach students and associates to help them compensate for the disadvantages this new style suffers. All the while, we should be looking for how we old fogies can pick up on the advantages of the new technology and new "multi-tasking" way of life. While they skim very shallowly over life, they also are covering very broad territory. Maybe we can manage to eke out the best of both worlds.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe not.Betsy McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824582240163409553noreply@blogger.com