Comments on: Derrick de Kerckhove: Digital Natives (and immigrants) and the potential pathologies

By: Thesaurus

Thesaurus — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:20:10 +0000

Interesting links. I’ve stolen some of them. But I don’t agree with Derrick in some points!

By: Brenda Boyd

Brenda Boyd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:03:31 +0000

Andrea Dworkin wrote: “One can be excited about ideas, without changing at all. One can think about ideas, talk about ideas, without changing at all. People are willing to think about many things. What people refuse to do, or are not permitted to do, or resist doing, is to change the way they think.” [Reality is when something is happening to you, and you know it, and can say it, and when you say it, other people understand what you mean and believe you. That is reality.]Reality is relational, and that relation is unequal and social.”
Brenda Boyd wrote: “Are our new tools aiding us in changing the way we think for the purpose of human dignity, equality and morality, and especially for freedom..I understood [this blog] was to explore the difficulties indeed addictions brought on by the use of all the latest technologies in one’s life and confronting them through dialogue that goes to the heart of being human. Being human means possessing dignity and freedom. [I mentioned the addictive harm and actual harm of pornography which sexualizes inequality.] [Sexuality as we know it] is an extension of pornography and pornography is addictive and that addiction can lead to mental disorders indeed it can be indicative of a mental disorder.”
Derrick de Kerckhove wrote:”We are meeting other people in different guises and our minds are changing as we do. Is that good? I really don’t know. It feels right. But then we have done things wrong for so long. I wonder if we still have the capacity to judge.”
And I, Brenda Boyd, end with a quote by the genius, The Great Inquisitor, Andrea Dworkin, “I am a serious person, I don’t live a trivial life.” Yes, she was an honourable person, she was kind-hearted, a heart easily broken, and she cared about humanity. Our technology and culture had best get back in touch with its foundation: what it means to be a human being and not a machine; the body and the soul are one and they are not tools.

By: Brenda Boyd

Brenda Boyd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:30:32 +0000

I posted the first few comments here and then asked them to removed later because I was led to believe they were not relevant here, but I was wrong. Andrea Dworkin wrote 13 books: she was “a theorist and a writer of genius.. she was a political philosopher”. I quoted her here and now I see her words are uncredited under Search.com ICTlogy Derrick de Kerckhove Digital Natives as well as some of my statements as if, AS IF, written by Derrick de Kerckhove. Andrea Dworkin was a serious person and an honourable person. She “wrote to change the way people thought” and she wrote about this in her first book Woman Hating published in 1974. So bear with me because I am going to repeat what I first posted here and stick with it. But first, in NextD a few years old now, Derrick said in an interview “to change the way people think about globalization” not as Andrea had said “to change the way people think.” My second comment will be as my original. Brenda Boyd