Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sleeper
After watching a little bit more of the movie sleeper I could not even begin to imagine life being the way it is in this movie. Everything just seems too far fetched and if this is how life truly will be someday then our society is going to be pretty lazy. I know that the robot idea has already come into effect to some extent but if we get robots to actually do all of our house work and hostings for all of our gatherings then the traditional preparations for a party are being left out. The preparations for a party can all be a part or way to interract with others and to stay engaged with the party. We will no longer have to do anything for ourselves it appears. It goes back to what Borgmann says about the traditional culture of the table. The phrase refers to staying engaged and interractive with society and doing things the focal way with focal points and practices rather than doing it the new and easy way with the devices. To some extent our world is being taken over fully by technology and we are no longer doing things that make us independent and different from one another.
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I think you’re right with about what you said about the culture of the table. I also think that we would lose the aspect of quality. All of the food cooked by different hosts would taste the same as anyone else’s. That combined with the fact that you didn’t actually prepare it would make bringing a side dish almost meaningless. I know that if certain members of my extended family bring a certain dish to a family reunion to stay away from it, but if someone else brought the same dish to “get it before it’s gone”. So we would lose quality, variety, and the risk of trying something new because it would come out exactly the same anyway.
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