{"id":10539,"date":"2011-07-15T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/15\/introverts-and-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T19:30:59","slug":"introverts-and-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/15\/introverts-and-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Introverts and the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anneli Rufus<\/span><\/a>, Party of One: The Loner\u2019s Manifesto<\/span><\/a> (New York: Marlowe and Co., 2003), pp. 106-107:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Internet is, for loners, an absolute and total miracle. It is, for us, the best invention of the last millennium. It educates. It entertains. It transforms. It facilitates a kind of dialogue in which we need not be seen, so it suits us perfectly. It validates. It makes being alone seem normal. It makes being alone fun for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so it has its critics. They claim it keeps kids from playing healthy games outdoors. They say it is a procurer for perverts, a weapon in hate crimes. Underlying all of this, of course, is the real reason for their dismay: the Internet legitimizes solitude. The real problem is not that kids don\u2019t play outdoors, but that they do not play with other kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve read the whole of this book, and I recommend it. It's not a great book, but it is worth reading. Click on the title above to read some positive and negative reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner\u2019s Manifesto (New York: Marlowe and Co., 2003), pp. 106-107: The Internet is, for loners, an absolute and total miracle. It is, for us, the best invention of the last millennium. It educates. It entertains. It transforms. It facilitates a kind of dialogue in which we need not be … Continue reading “Introverts and the Internet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-personality-typology","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}