modern-life

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.

I__ sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,_ Kitteredge said. __e__ a friend of the family.__o that__ it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we__ still be riding bicycles.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you get angry. Without any reason or rhyme, you become angry _ suddenly you flare up. Everybody knows that this is foolish, even you in your cooler moments know that that was foolish. But why did you flare up unnecessarily? The excuse was not enough. The real reason is not that there was some situation; the real reason is you have so much energy, so much petrol overflowing, inflammable, that any moment it can be active. That is why after anger you feel relaxed, after anger you feel a little well-being coming to you.

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

Animal are more modern because they don't wear anything...!!!

Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

I felt like I wasn__ living thoroughly enough _ I was distracted in ways I wouldn__ be if I__ been born in 1929.

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.

When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.

sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it__ me