I watched History of Science last night on PBS. I scribbled down a couple of statements:
"Humans are creatures of rational thought and emotional turmoil "
I thought....they've got that right.
'Language. literature and now computers are the difference between ourselves and animals'
That's right too.
Now that we have social media ,people are recording thoughts in a way never before possible.
I quoted my first-born grand-daughter's use of a "bad word" a couple of days ago. She used it as a form of expression to describe a person who made a negative comment about her grandmother
Another person responded that she is a "rude little girl who should wash her mouth out with soap. "
Hard on the heels came another comment that I refuse to change no matter what.
I thought the comments were interesting in what they revealed.
The first person assumed my grand-daughter is a child because she is a grand-daughter.
It is not so. My first-born grand=daughter is of a parental geneation. Her younger sister has a
child of eleven. years..my first-born great -grand- daughter.
My first-born grand-daughter is a Facebook generation.
My Ottawa artist grandson, Patrick, confessed recently to being embarassed to realise that I read vocabulary he uses on Facebook.
He doesn't use it in conversation with myself. It's obviously common parlance with his friends.
So what should I make of that.?
Should I attempt to change my grandchildren's reality with my idea of permissible language?
Or should I go with the flow?
Do I have a choice?
Am I a partcipant? Or an observer?
A creature of rational thought and emotional turmoil ?
Or different to all the rest?
I doubt I am different. Except that I have lived longer than most of the rest.
I have been where they are and know about that.
I am where they have not yet been and know stuff they don't.
Does that call for me to apologise ? I don't think so.
But I o think, seeing our thoughts in writing
Tuesday 20 August 2013
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Every day there are new horror stories about people getting bitten on the butt by things they put up on Facebook or twitted to a few hundred ' close friends '.
" Australia tourism bosses cause outrage by censoring ' full frontal ' kangaroo Facebook pic "
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