You are sick. You are sick and the worst thing is that you do not want to see it .Technology is robbing you of your humanity and the saddest thing is that you yourself are allowing it.
You, the readers and authors of this website, are great lovers of the technique: smartphones, smartwatches and any type of gadget calls your attention and attracts you like light to insects .Y , as in these cases, many times the light is nothing but a fatal claim.
We, on the other hand, are neoludites .We have understood that technology is dehumanizing the human being, that it is robbing us of our essence, and that we are passing our intelligence, our being, to these devices supposedly "Smart".
We know what you're thinking: "You can't fight against progress" .But is not what we want .Ortega said that technology is what makes us humans, which takes us away from animals, and some have identified it with making tools, but it is not like that.To evolve is not to take a stone and use it to carve, to evolve is to think about how to use that stone, to imagine what we can do with it and create.
Always man has adapted to changes, but has always been a natural way , morphological: we begin to walk on two legs, we use our hands to grab as no other does animal and, finally, our best weapon is the brain, a "member" that takes several years to develop (human childhood is the longest in Nature) because we need a learning time that will lead us to develop in a special way.And for none of that we needed machines.
Against the alienating machines
It is said that the name comes to us as recognition of the Luddite movement that was born in Great Britain in the 19th century and in which the workers rose against the first industrial machines and the first factories.At that time it was an economic and political movement: the machines were taking away their jobs.We, the current Neoludites, go much further and, at the same time, it is much simpler.
We live immersed in technology and this means that we are moving away from our own nature and new diseases have emerged , which are, after all, psychological disorders: the imaginary call syndrome , the nomophobia (being unable to leave home without the phone), the depression of Facebook when the comments on your wall are down, the Google effect that we end up looking for in this search engine, the "double check" syndrome that we It creates a state of anxiety when we are not answered by WhtasApp or the simple dependence on the Internet, online games, etc.We do not invent anything, all this exists and there are even clinics and treatments for it.
What we preach is a simple return to life , where we can use tools that are not alienating, that do not steal our identity.How many times do we see all public transport in public transportation? passengers locked in the screens of their phones? How many times do they feel lost by not having coverage and are, in theory, unable to do anything until they reconnect? How many conversations have they lost because they are looking at their notifications?
Let's use technology, but as long as it doesn't stop us from developing: we don't use memory anymore, but at the slightest doubt we jump on Google; We rely more on the smartphone maps than on our own instinct, even if we know the way well! We must think if these supposed tools are really necessary or, worse, if we must be constantly connected.
Large private companies constantly gather data and data about all of us through a multitude of methods: our habits registered on the web, the "checkins" and "selfies" that we do in each place where we are, the video surveillance cameras...and this is increasing thanks to the future that provide 5G and the technologies of Big Data.Our data is transmitted continuously: where we are, what we do (sport, leisure), what we like, etc. We don't pretend to be paranoid , but all this is happening right now.Do you know everything Google knows about you? Would you really be able to disconnect completely for a few days? Try it.
WHAT DOES NEOLUDITA DO WHAT YOU DO?
We do not carry a smartphone and yet we are not incommunicado .We use the landline or telephone booths and, if at any given time, we cannot call someone, nothing happens! Remember that not long ago there were not even smartphones? We didn't need them to meet friends, to play or to have fun.
When we wake up every morning , the first thing we do is not look at our emails or WhatsApp messages, we don't need it.If something important happens, we'll find out.We don't have that insane need to See if someone has written to us because we have real and direct relationships with people and not with machines without faces.
If we have to remember something, we do not "throw" on the search engine, but before we use memory (a very healthy sport, we recommend it).If we are a moment with nothing to do (in the bus queue, for example), we also don't look at the smartphone (if we carry it): we observe what surrounds us, we read, we talk to other people.
Nobody knows anything about us that we don't want: we don't share when we're drinking with friends, or when we go to a concert, or if we're in a museum, why? How to posture to our "friends"? Because that is another, we do not have thousands of "friends" on Facebook, but only a few, but with whom we can count at any time, and very close ours.
We do not need to wear smart watches or bracelets that point our physical activity, we do not need: if we go out to play sports we do not carry any device, not even the GPS... we will not get lost!
It is not a matter of hating technology , it is a question of using only what is really essential and not letting ourselves be deceived by modern "smart" sirens that do not claim anything other than having us controlled, knowing and taking advantage of that knowledge to be able to offer us new devices or services that, if we think about it, we could live perfectly without them.Take the test, try to be a week without a smartphone, if you do not get it, it is that we are right and you are sick But calm down, everything has a cure.You just have to want to heal.Or not?
Postscript: At the beginning of this text I addressed the readers and authors of this website...and I just of realizing that I am part of both groups.Ains (sigh of Neoludite in identity crisis).
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