Where I Lived and What I Lived For.

Post #14 - Reply to Henry David Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For."

I immediately see why this essay was assigned to us, and it tells me a lot of what Professor Gramse's opinion is about the Internet and how it's changing the way we learn and live. Basically Henry David Thoreau is writing about how we as a society are always wanted to know more about other peoples' lives and that we so committed to know what's going onwith everyone else that we never slow down and give ourself a chance to live our own life. We're so addicted to knowing what's going on with everyone else that we're constantly on Facebook or other social  networking websites, and according to Henry David Thoreau we're not living our own life. I do have to agree with him on this. We want our information faster now. We don't want to sit through hour and a half long lectures to get the information. We don't want to read a whole book to learn what we need to learn. We want to skim no more than two or three pages and learn everything that way. The faster way. The better way, but is it better for us? We're teaching ourselves to have a short attention span, and in the long-run its really going to hurt us.