Journal 66: Better Things?

frantically, i agree. I could see the ideas behind her words and questioning if the advance of technology really did brought men forward in society. We're moving so fast and so many things can take care of our concerns that alot of the qualities at that time was forgotten. If it is not forgotten, then it is that we have no place to demonstrate that quality.
For example, courage. How do we demonstrate courage in nowadays? i really have no idea. In the old times, we could probably face a bear in a jungle alone. Now? we get to face a dragon in video games or cars in the streets. So where did all the bears went? dead, driven away deeper and deeper in the woods and eventually we never see them again.
Then we have the fact that technology have shortened the attention span of modern kids. I can even feel that kids nowadays are getting dumber and duller. Why? i walk around the lower school back in my old school and i see kids holding a itouch or psp playing games the whole time. All you have to do is take a hand held device and sit down the whole time. What happened to sports? thinking creatively for new games with nature? running and catching bugs? none. All of this was taken away by technology. Technology is so big and conveniant in the 21th century that have forced people to become dull in sense, dull in mind, and dull in heart. They have abandoned the interaction with nature and thinking. They took up handheld devices that asks them to sit down in a chair doing nothing but clicking buttons.
People in the ancient times didn't have all thses devices to do their works for them. They had to think out of the box and use their actual hands to try out and experiment with different things. That, promoted learning and critical thinking. These psp and itouch games doesn't. If you say that they promote fast thinking through playing games, i wouldn't agree. I beleive that a week in the wilderness can sharpen your senses. A month in the wilderness taught you life lessons. Appreciation for life, physical strength and a healthy mind. I believe in the romantic heroes not because of the beautiful characteristics, that's too much idealization. I admire those things because it is what actually will be useful in life and the environment at that time actually sharpen a person's whole body.
What would be best i believe now, is to have the same free thinking concepts and conceptual philosophy of the 21st century and a combination of pure nature. That, would most likely bring a totally new human race as the physical reality challenges people while our mindsets are free .