Here's a good wish I have for you for 2012. Turn off those digital devices and learn to live again.
Thanks to Dale Yost
All things about the media, marketing, business, Japan and other musings by Mike in Tokyo Rogers.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
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Comments must be succinct & relevant to the story. Comments are checked frequently and abusive, rude or profane comments will be deleted. I’m just one of many bloggers who answer questions online and sometimes for the press. I usually handle questions about Japan, marketing or the economy, so in those areas I’m more likely to make sense and less likely to say something really stupid. If I post something here that you find helpful or interesting, that’s wonderful. This is my personal blog. If you don't like what you have read here then, just like when you go into a restaurant or bar that allows smoking, if you don't like it, there's something at the front that has hinges on it and it is called a "door."
anti-business! Anti-capitalist!!!! I'm Ayn Rand and I approve this message!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNeat. I'm gonna play this to my students. (And I know exactly what they'll say, but I'll play it anyway.)
A propos, here're some words from Ivan Illich that have been haunting me recently: "The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed."