{"id":6210,"date":"2016-09-19T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/19\/i-used-to-be-a-human-being\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:33:06","slug":"i-used-to-be-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/19\/i-used-to-be-a-human-being\/","title":{"rendered":"I Used to be a Human Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/09\/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html?mid=twitter-share-selectall\">recounts<\/a> the perils of life in the information superhighway&#39;s fast lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But our man certainly is verbose. &#0160;One would have thought that all that smartphone use and all that manic tweeting and updating would have induced a bit of pithiness into his writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I love the Internet and use it everyday except when I&#39;m on retreat. &#0160; But I have never sent a text message in my life; I do not have a Twitter account; my Facebook page languishes; I do not own a smartphone; my TracPhone account costs me a paltry $99 per year and I have thousands of unused minutes; I have a laptop and an ipad for backup but rarely use them; &#0160;in the wild I use map and compass, never having bothered to buy a GPS device; I am never out and about with something stuck into my ear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I know people who begin their day by checking text messages. &#0160;You do what you want, but I say that&#39;s no way to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">More <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/sage_advice_how_to_live\/\">Sage Advice<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/11\/how-not-to-begi.html\">How Not to Begin the Day<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Related articles<\/span><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0px; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/07\/the-big-unplug-starts-tomorrow.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/354286384_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/07\/the-big-unplug-starts-tomorrow.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Unplug Starts Today<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan recounts the perils of life in the information superhighway&#39;s fast lane. But our man certainly is verbose. &#0160;One would have thought that all that smartphone use and all that manic tweeting and updating would have induced a bit of pithiness into his writing. I love the Internet and use it everyday except when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/19\/i-used-to-be-a-human-being\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Used to be a Human Being&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,109,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-blogging","category-web-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","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=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}