tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post4546859335100243957..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: single vision produces the worst visionAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-20323786858309972722008-10-21T14:40:00.000-04:002008-10-21T14:40:00.000-04:00I don't object to your definitions, but I am curio...I don't object to your definitions, but I am curious about them - why do these definitions seem important or effective to you?<BR/><BR/>Why on earth would you define "human nature" using a 30 yr old American? You're trying to define a general category using a highly specific subcategory. Would you define the concept of "shapes" as "squares," because squares are an example of a shape? I sort of - but only sort of - see what you're getting at in terms of generational change. It needed clarified.<BR/><BR/>When you claim that technology changes human nature, you don't relate it back at all to your definition of human nature - or, indeed, of technology. You seem to be arguing that people change, or cultures changes - but you defined human nature as something more than that initially.<BR/><BR/>I have no idea where you get the idea that there are no individuals in the U.S.; I don't even know what you mean, really. If this was important, you needed to explain it a little more.<BR/><BR/>Your argument shifts again. This material represents a big change: "There is hope for these lost electric sheep. When people are separated from these machines and returned to nature, that’s when real human nature kicks in, Survival." It seems to me that you're dealing with a third implicit definition of human nature here; human nature as the biological need to survive. How does this relate to your previous ideas about human nature?<BR/><BR/>The contradictions continue through to the end. "Technology is an aspect of human nature. It may alter us, the same way a child alters his parents, but it cannot dictate who we are as human beings." So does technology change human nature or not? It seems that you want to have it both ways not only throughout the paper, but also at the very ending.<BR/><BR/>Summary: Your goals and interests shift, seemingly, from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. Some of the things you say are interesting, but they don't add up to a consistent argument - and you offer almost no evidence for any of your positions.Adam Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11588769281227456640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-74582284453024645522008-10-19T23:39:00.000-04:002008-10-19T23:39:00.000-04:00this is option 2this is option 2sgl5https://www.blogger.com/profile/07697220035220305019noreply@blogger.com