I've been a fan of Ken's reporting for a while now, but I find this genre of post insufferable.
Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that exactly what privilege is though? A measure of a person's ability to be part of that self-selected pool, and to shield yourself from issues that affect other people?
"Privilege" has sort of morphed in an mostly-untouchable insult and I don't think it means very much of anything any longer and should not be used. What it means in practice: - You can't have an opinion because you're in the wrong group. - Your opinion is wrong because you're in the wrong group. - Your opinion is hypocritical (and therefore wrong) because of the group you're in. It's a big step back with regard to ar…
I've not noticed that change in my own conversations, where privilege maintains its pretty clear definition. Maybe you need to find better conversation partners? Or perhaps you're misunderstanding the criticisms that people have of what you're saying?
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#143But you felt the strong urge to write once you are on the flight back. I bet you were thinking about the stuff that should go into that writing, all the time during that week. You were collecting photos to share. That's not true disconnecting. You should just experience it and not share it. That week should only exist in your own memory.
One of the best feelings is letting things go. "It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did" It's an act of rebellion towards a world browbeating you into performance for invisible strangers
> "It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did"
Sometimes it's just for you. While walking with a friend last night I passed a home I've probably passed a hundred million times. Though this time, I noticed something, the second floor had a Christmas tree peaking out of a window. At that moment I realized that someone in the folds of Queens NYC took their time to put up this tree leaving the curtains drawn so someone on the street below might look up will and see their tree. It was such a weird little thought that I had to snap a picture even though my first thought was "nah." Will I ever share it? No. There's no reason to. But I have that little snapshot of that scene and the thoughts that came with it.
Re: Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Privilege" has sort of morphed in an mostly-untouchable insult and I don't think it means very much of anything any longer and should not be used. What it means in practice: - You can't have an opinion because you're in the wrong group. - Your opinion is wrong because you're in the wrong group. - Your opinion is hypocritical (and therefore wrong) because of the group you're in. It's a big step back with regard to ar…
I've not noticed that change in my own conversations, where privilege maintains its pretty clear definition. Maybe you need to find better conversation partners? Or perhaps you're misunderstanding the criticisms that people have of what you're saying?
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Re: Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
#145The article doesn't deliver on the headline of why the author disappeared. At no point is the motivation for going to the Galapagos disclosed.
Motivation... it's a cool place for a holiday? See some endemic wildlife?
The author seems based in North America which in December is typically cooler than the equatorial Galapagos.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
can a poor person not disconnect in the same way? I think plenty already do without meaning too, lots of tech-illiterate truck drivers and construction workers with flip phones.
Are construction workers and truck drivers all poor today? They could have flip phones by choice rather than necessity.
Some are, for sure construction workers. Truck drivers, it depends. Some of the "Swift" type drivers and local/regional class-B guys might be.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
can a poor person not disconnect in the same way? I think plenty already do without meaning too, lots of tech-illiterate truck drivers and construction workers with flip phones.
Poor people suffer from political conflict more directly, enduring the abysmal policies coming from the top in a very concrete way.
I don't disagree one bit, but how is that related to my comment or the thread?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently more people need to see more information about those things because they’re still happening
Maybe you need to read more news if you think we have people in charge who'd care about public opposition to the practice. This is foisting misery on people who have no capacity to affect change.
effect change
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#149Electronic devices are very effective distraction tools, especially phones. Companies and apps leverage our psychology and biology to get our attention, but we can take control of what we interact with—and if we remove the hooks, they won't be able to exploit them anymore. What could help is taking control of how devices interact with us, rather than letting other people control that. This includes deciding which app…
step 1: disable notifications and I mean ALL notifications - learn how to process important / timely events without reminders
I like iOS' "Notification Summaries" as a compromise. It's about as close to "turn all these notifications into a regularly scheduled newspaper" as we can get.
I still cull notifications that I don't think provide value (notifications are a privilege based on trust and apps that break that trust lose that privilege), but yeah even when I get notifications I only really get them once every 4 hours or so, and that's nice.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the best feelings is letting things go. "It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did" It's an act of rebellion towards a world browbeating you into performance for invisible strangers
> "It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did" Sometimes it's just for you. While walking with a friend last night I passed a home I've probably passed a hundred million times. Though this time, I noticed something, the second floor had a Christmas tree peaking out of a window. At that moment I realized that someone in the folds of Queens NYC took their time to put up this tree leaving the curtains…
> Will I ever share it? No. There's no reason to.
You just did.