Subjection to immediacy obstructs equanimity, restricts perception, and hinders communication of meaning and value.
The imposition of instantaneous direct involvement with media upon consciousness narrows and distorts perspective, yet it is most often a matter of choice and habit perpetuated by technological culture and its proponents. As such it is within the power of one's will to determine the extent of its necessity and desirability, given cognizance of the reality and the self-aware capacity to call it into question analytically. Certainly this suggests the virtue of direct perception, as well as that of art in opposition to illusion.
Consider the effect of the sounds of cicadas at night on the people of the late prehistoric ages.
The imposition of instantaneous direct involvement with media upon consciousness narrows and distorts perspective, yet it is most often a matter of choice and habit perpetuated by technological culture and its proponents. As such it is within the power of one's will to determine the extent of its necessity and desirability, given cognizance of the reality and the self-aware capacity to call it into question analytically. Certainly this suggests the virtue of direct perception, as well as that of art in opposition to illusion.
Consider the effect of the sounds of cicadas at night on the people of the late prehistoric ages.
