There are people that are not "old people" but are people old enough AND remember (because they want to,many unfortunately for the rest and for them wish not to) how was life without mobile phones, all this crazy devices, with all the cables, ear-phones, tables, with just few computers, and not lad tops...and without Internet.
People try to portrait a image that people was more ignorant, less cultures, with less knowledge, information and so. Is not the case. The only thing that really can be said about Internet is the easy-quick reach to some info. But in the other hand the window to false-info, black-info, half truths and so is enormous...and this outbalance the first thing said.Then...not much advance in the knowledge terrain whatever they sell us from all ALL quarters.
Quality and quantity goes to the information field, to the culture field, to the knowledge fields.
Quality has long ago been sacrifice for quantity. And again much of what counts for quantity is "false-info, black-info, half truths".
There is one thing with a book, a leaflet, a magazine, a paper...is something physical, something tangible.Then someone or someones, somewhere had to put it all together, the info, the stories, the images or whatever, and then someone had to distribute. Then, the end of the line, the people that acquires that item, know someone responsible whatever degree, someone or something to relate to what is reading: a individual, a collective, just a group of individuals, a party...and their ideas, their real stances that is the main point here. Like "ok, i'm reading this, and i know her-him, and and know more or less to what she is about"...then "what is she telling me?" "ok, she is being basically coherent"
This is not the case with so many on-line stuff. There are anonymous things in the Internet. this means that in the real life more or less people now real individuals relate at some degree with that on-line thing. And, here we are not talking about, "yes, i saw her or his profile" or "twitter account"or whatever. No, no. That the same. That on-line, virtual stuff.
Here we are talking real info, out of the Internet, out of the computers and phones...Info in real life.
And part of the point here is that many people say this,that, portrait him or herself and then in real life is another story. That happened before yes, but Internet and all this programs and possibility of putting images,photos and so facilitates the manipulation, the false-portrait.Some people have a stpry and a portrait of himself or herself really different to the real life.That is not nice, not good and affect the real life.
Other thing of Internet, when they sell us the thing. "Everything will be available" "everything will be at the same level of access and easy to find".
Is not the case. Even, just as simply that depending of the State you are that affect the things that you see or don't see. Or the difficulty to access them. But within the State the same. And somethings -and interesting and important ones- are marginalized, push aside. Like in the real life (something that th system that sold us Internet said was going to be solve). And to find them, or came across them...is really difficult.
Curiously enough in the old days -before Internet- in general. was not much more difficult to come across something outside the box, something really alternative, something interesting. With some things actually easier, like some revolutionary literature.
And this was, first of all because the old ways and channel were more difficult for the system and their agents, to control, supervise monitored and censor. In the new-tech era is more for them. First of all to monitor all, and then they have so much more tools for alter, manipulate and censor.
Young people should know this, realize it implications and hopefully learn. And the older folks, should start realizing the degree of responsibility in their shoulder. And then do something about...or not, of course.
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