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发表于 2004-11-6 21:17:26
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Both the development of technological tools and the uses to which humanity has put them have created modern civilizations in which loneliness is ever increasing.
Realistically, more and more people have strong lonely feeling, than their ancestor. I believe that one of its reasons is the development of technological tools and the uses.
More contact, less loneliness. One person feels lonely mostly because of short of contact with others. A man in a team is less chance feeling lonely than a person live by himself. If people work together, study together, and often chat together,do you believe they can feel lonely? But people have less and less things to do together.
The cavemen trend to hunt in a team in order to get wide animals. And during hunting, they need to shout, call partners' names and carry dead animals to house together. In the evening, they are seated by fire, talking about their food, the friends, the weather... Most time of their life, they stay with each other, contact all days. Maybe, they are hungry, but do you think the cavemen live lonely all days? And in that condition, they have to do that, because of less advanced tools with them, one person can not live by himself. Until the metal tools come, people can use metal plow to farm.
In the Middle Age, in order to harvest, several people water together, plow together, and get in together. In a village, the villagers often help each other and exchange things like eggs, clothes, tools. They may short of food, I don't think they have more loneliness than people who live in the modern era.
After Industrial Revolution, blue-collar workers in factory can use a machine by him or work in a fluent line like a cog in a technological machine. Since the advent of the personal computer, the white-collar they face the screen to all the day short of physical contact with other people. In the evening, people often watch TV in silence even a couple in a house. This is especially true in recent times due to the extremely rapid expansion of the Internet, they communicate by E- mail, shop on line, as physical contact is less and less.
A lot of common things, have changed form increasing contact to decreasing. For example, the cavemen go to hunt on foot with friends talking and smiling. And they rarely travel long by oneself. Nowadays, people go to work by car in which he is lonely. And people often travel by oneself, even form America to China. In the plane, there are many passengers who stay with each other several hours, but when they walk out the plane, they are still strangers.
I agree that development of technological tools and the uses have created modern civilizations. Before the Industrial Revolution, the wealth of the social increase slowly. After that, the productivity increase faster, especially form the computer' coming. For instance, women sew clothes by hand in the Middle Age, after sewing machine come, clothes are made by machines, now the sewing machines are controlled by computers.
Overall, the tools are developed, from brunch, plow to machine, even computer; and people travel on foot but now by automobile, by plane. They should be happy, but they are a little queasy. How to decrease people' loneliness? I think people should often contact with each other not only intellectual contact but also physical contact. The later is more important than the former. |
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