Yes you are right it is a strange world. Further I would not gather with many of the men here in body, by reason of their age, sex, &c. It is not natural for women and men to speak so freely together. And I have not in substance spoken in a long while to a foreign or someone much younger than I. Though on the Internet if I did speak they would see my words, though I did not wish to hear their answer. I have even seen some that have reckoned all men on the Internet as alike, speaking to them as brothers. These men have become divorced from reality, and the conclusion of this could be bad. In any case, let us not shun the worst of the evils, that men, specially young ones, are looking commonly at bare women on the Internet, from a young age. At one time in Christian lands men would only see their wives thus, after they had said the wedlock. They are putting their time to vain use, and they should, when they are older, repent of it, but till then it will overlay their minds, though they do not know it. I have turned the Internet to use often and for long hours, sometimes as many as sixteen a day, since I left high school in 1999 or 2000, and I agree that it has changed, though so have I. I will also say that I do not understand the fascination that some have with new things, and indeed I do not understand the great allure that the Internet and technology as it seems have. To my mind most things on the Internet arose in the nineties, and in some cases have been undone needlessly and for the worse by things now. Together the dealings and communications have become worse, and I have seen once good places, full of thought and mature spirit, either go, or become worse. In some cases (I will not soften my words here) they are now populated by men that curse and hate wisdom and as it seems have no morality. A good fraternity that was scarcely already a substitute for actual dealings, has now become worse, and is not worth the strain. Further the companies that earn money from the Internet, have hurt most of what was good about it, as to video games, &c. It has an ugly shape now, looking too much like greed and excessive business. Everything that I liked about my younger days on the Internet is now gone or marred. And as any kind of dealing on the Internet, as time and change have shown, is vain and empty, or at least less than ideal, and a poor substitute for a real one, it does make me ask what comes of the Internet at last? What does a young man, looking at bare electronic women and playing temporary electronic games that will be discarded, and not by him, but by commerce and excess, do when he becomes fully grown? We must be careful not to reason from the Internet thoughts about the world without, and I know men now still wed and procreate...but younger men will do anything... they have the vigour to do good in the world, and thus it is a shame when they have scattered their time on empty things on the Internet. Having spent many of my younger years on the Internet, I have tried to go to taverns, &c. but found it an unpleasant occasion. It does not matter how we look at it, the Internet has drawn men away in body and soul to it, and that has put the world without in bad proportion, and hurt it in other ways. And the lewd sights that men are looking on on it may be the worst. A warning of my grandfather comes in mind, that "All women are not like that." Alas I needed more than a little warning, and that was not the best kind either. Men simply should not look at those sights. There should not be that familiarity. I don't remember much about the Internet in high school, it required the use of a phone line, so it was not liked by many, and neither were those that used it, which is even as important. That didn't change till (as I remember first hearing of it among common men) the early 2000s, when broadband had arisen, though still not well liked, and my experience corroborates this, I feel it changed more in the late part of that decade, and has continued to change till recent times. I began to put it to continual use in 1999 or 2000, and as I think of it now, it was a choice between fraternity with friends that used unlawful medicines and plants, and online video games. As I look backward, had the Internet not have been there, I likely would have sought other friends, or done something better, as a lack of things to do can make us. But it is hard to say how we would feel as a young man in any certain state, the feelings are so different. By that reason, I remember bulletin board systems and Telnet from the mid and late 90s, but though they seemed wonderful then, I don't know that they would now. Both I and online things have changed, but it is hard to say in what proportion, I say, in what proportion, which is most to the matter.
19 Sep 2018, 8:42 pm
