Ah ! - A philosophical discussion ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> I love that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
1.Well, what is this "life I/you/others should get"?
2.What does it involve?
3.What does it exclude?
4.What is your personal definition of a "life to get"?
5.Why is a "life" (spending time on the internet) not a "life" - and if it is not a "life", what is it then?
I cannot stick to exactly all of the points, pleaee forgive me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> When I'm beginning to write, everything becomes an article on something. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> I don't like to innterupt "the flow". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
So, my thoughts :
Depends on the point of view of the one who says it. "hanging in a virtual room" (crude description for Internet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) might be considered "inferior" by some people.
I think that "being online" and especially "chatting" is considered "non-productive" by some people.
That reminds me of the view many men have towards "chatting" , "gossip" and communication in general : It's not productive. You don't create things with it, so it's basically inferior to "productive" works.
The element of the exchange of information is often heavily ignored, because that's a thing the people didn't need for a long time. A farmer doesn't need that - he only needs to know when to seed and to harvest.
In recent times, the view has shifted a bit, butr this is still far from being well considered : We live in a society (at least in the so-called "Western World" , no matter how rude this term might in the effect be) that is more and more built upon the exchange of information - like the shift from a productive economy (farmers) to a economy rather based upon services (Dienstleistungsgesellschaft).
So "get yourself a life" basically means (in my theory) that you should a) shut up (stop chatting), b) stop being online all of the time, but rather c) "do something productive".
Artists have this problem, too : They all create wonderful works everyone adores, but no-one would say they do "productice works" like a smith, a farmer, a miner and so on.
Some people listening to guitar music (Heavy Metal and relatives) say that they listen to that, because it's "hand made". The same reason can be applied to orchestras, too, though.
Digging deeper, it might be a thing of "hands vs. mind". It reminds me of the DDR, the "other German country", so to say, which wanted to be a "Arbeiter und Bauern-Staat" (country for workers and farmers). People who worked with their minds were considered inferior to them, as far as I know, at least in the socialistic theory (so to say).
In the asian country Cambodia (right spelled ?) the terror regime of Pol Pot went even some steps further on : I've heard the term "Steinzeitkommunismus" ("stone-age communism") which is said to be a state of being they wanted : People only working with their hands, for their living, everyone being equal towards others, no mond-workers allowed. Rumor says that people who even had glasses were punished to work in camps. Everyone knows the infamous "Killing Fields" .
I think that is the most deepest point I can reach in this analysis : the difference of "working by mind" compared to "working by hand".
That's as deep as I can get. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
And of course, that'y my very own theory. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Alrik.
