Tired in a disclosed world...
The autumn air that has swept over this land has reached my inner organism. It has taken me over and I it is demanding me to sleep. Even so..tired in body but wide awake in the mind, as from being intoxinated by coffein, Last night I lay wide awake without a visit from the Fairy of Sleep. we all have our strategies for fallling asleep I assume, So i went through the whole repertoar of falling asleep strategies. The last of my strategies, a very non appealing strategy compared to the others, which was opening the course book in Entrepeneurship in the experience economy , Disclosing New Worlds, for the first time, not only eventually put me to sleep. But before it did it really woke me up in other aspects:
Our history, that weird book argues, is created, not by the elections of US. Presidents, or by political revolutions or battles or World Wars- Our history, is mainly created by the ways in which we view ourselves as humans...our identity shaping processes are everchanging and this is history making. The authors of this book encourages us to draw the attention from the History making focused on events, and instead start practising detachement to understand our own identity creation proces in the flexible world we now live in. So with that said..I will get to the point and the reason I felt so illuminated in bed at 4 am this morning...
A few days ago I asked you a question on here concerniabout the use of MSN. My question concerned wether MSN is for people with nothing better to do, or with too much time on their hands...an anonymous commentator declared the debate to be aged out "today MSN is legitimate " he or she argued, "veryone is using it and youre not considered as "not having a life" if youre online even all day and all night, was the main point of the anonymous commentator. My roomate Clara, protested aginst this comment (after I translated what the mysterious poster said) and claimed that the debate is very much up to date and actual. (sadly those were the only comments :) Who is right and who is wrong is really not the point though. The point is that I may have found an academic answer to the question in the book Disclosing New Worlds!! As i lay there reading and the clock was approaching 4 am...the authors discussed the use of the internet as an important part of our modern western society peoples' identity creating process. The use of messenger services like MSN, the online game hysteria, the community madness (facebook and others) enables us...MODERN WOMEN AND MEN, to have a flexible Identity creation process in an everchanging, world. MSN and its equals is a necessity, a necessity people, for us modern human beings. It enables us to take on different roles and personalities, training us and enduring us for our manyfaced roles we have to play in the society. The internet, the authors claim, has just recently fallen out of its "unserious" category. In that sense, the anonymous poster was right, its ok today to be a frequent internet user. The internet is no longer considered to be an unserious activity. On the contrary, the all day onliners may be the ones we turn to for advice in future issues. They will be the ones equipped with the essential TOOLS, while the rest of us learned nothing while we were rediculating them behind their backs.
Our history, that weird book argues, is created, not by the elections of US. Presidents, or by political revolutions or battles or World Wars- Our history, is mainly created by the ways in which we view ourselves as humans...our identity shaping processes are everchanging and this is history making. The authors of this book encourages us to draw the attention from the History making focused on events, and instead start practising detachement to understand our own identity creation proces in the flexible world we now live in. So with that said..I will get to the point and the reason I felt so illuminated in bed at 4 am this morning...
A few days ago I asked you a question on here concerniabout the use of MSN. My question concerned wether MSN is for people with nothing better to do, or with too much time on their hands...an anonymous commentator declared the debate to be aged out "today MSN is legitimate " he or she argued, "veryone is using it and youre not considered as "not having a life" if youre online even all day and all night, was the main point of the anonymous commentator. My roomate Clara, protested aginst this comment (after I translated what the mysterious poster said) and claimed that the debate is very much up to date and actual. (sadly those were the only comments :) Who is right and who is wrong is really not the point though. The point is that I may have found an academic answer to the question in the book Disclosing New Worlds!! As i lay there reading and the clock was approaching 4 am...the authors discussed the use of the internet as an important part of our modern western society peoples' identity creating process. The use of messenger services like MSN, the online game hysteria, the community madness (facebook and others) enables us...MODERN WOMEN AND MEN, to have a flexible Identity creation process in an everchanging, world. MSN and its equals is a necessity, a necessity people, for us modern human beings. It enables us to take on different roles and personalities, training us and enduring us for our manyfaced roles we have to play in the society. The internet, the authors claim, has just recently fallen out of its "unserious" category. In that sense, the anonymous poster was right, its ok today to be a frequent internet user. The internet is no longer considered to be an unserious activity. On the contrary, the all day onliners may be the ones we turn to for advice in future issues. They will be the ones equipped with the essential TOOLS, while the rest of us learned nothing while we were rediculating them behind their backs.
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