RE: Internet: Connected to Disconnection

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Internet: Connected to Disconnection

in life •  7 years ago 

Upvoted, Resteemed. A good observation in the age of portraying something we're not.

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Appreciated! Looks like that made your 666th Steemit post :p

You sure did ;-)

Much better response than you have seen lately. Congrats!

Thanks man

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

"Behold then all human faculties developed, memory and imagination in full play, egoism
interested, reason active, and the mind almost at the highest point of its perfection. Behold all the natural qualities in action, the rank and condition of every man assigned him; not merely his share of property and his power to serve or injure others, but also his wit, beauty, strength or skill, merit or talents: and these being the only qualities capable of commanding respect, it soon became necessary to possess or to affect them.

It now became the interest of men to appear what they really were not. To be and to seem became two totally different things; and from this distinction sprang insolent pomp and cheating trickery, with all the numerous vices that go in their train."

I read Rousseau every year with my students and his observations are downright spooky living in an increasingly "social" world.