less stuff more soul

[loca]

"‘I walked thirty miles to school every morning, so you kids should too.’ That’s a statement born of envy and resentment. What I’m saying is something quite different. What I’m saying is that by having very little, I had it good. Children need a sense of pulling their own weight, of contributing to the family in some way, and some sense of the

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[rainbow105]

My fear is this: I fear that as we cover more of our planet with concrete and steel, as we wire our homes with more and more fiber-optic cables that take the place of more intimate interactions, as we give our children more and more stuff and less and less time, as we go further and further away from the kind of simplicity I knew as a child...

That is my fear also. :(

[sacha]

Society is rapidly being ruined by technology and instant gratification, as much as I hate to say it, because I love technology as well as instant gratification. The combination will be our downfall, I believe.

On a semi-related note, Maurice Poitier, Sidney's cousin, was my 7th grade social studies teacher when I first moved to Florida. He had grotesquely long fingernails that captured students' attention more than the words in the text, I think. :-\

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[loca]

Technology is a funny thing. It connects us to people that we never could have known, and reconnects us with the past. At the same time, it robs us of human interaction.

Maurice Poitier...dude, I think I remember you talking about him once. I guess part of that man truly never left the backroads of Cat Island!