Have you ever found yourself dismayed at the pile of papers on your desk? At the amount of stuff you have to learn for some course? At the amount of marketing that we are bombarded with on a daily basis? At the complexity of just about everything that is done in this modern world? Have you ever seen somebody clutching their mobile device, be it a phone or music player or both, as if it were a pacifier for the hands? Have you ever felt like something has and is going terribly wrong, had a strong desire for a simplification of your life? If so, then this site aims to give expression to that feeling. It needs to be said up front that this site isn’t proposing that information is necessarily a bad thing, only that we give it too much importance, carry it too far, pile it too deep, and lose ourselves in it. It is a recipe for discontent.
We live in the so-called Information Age. This seems like an apt name to describe the goings-on of the present times. Many of us make our living not because we produce some tangible, useful thing, but simply because we know something that someone else doesn’t. We are star-bellied sneetches and Sylvester McMonkey McBean is making a fortune. And if you want to take part in this brave new world you had better go out and get yourself an education, by God, or else face being left behind. But before you say “Fine! Leave me behind,” being left behind isn’t as benign as being left behind in, say, a foot race. These days, being left behind may entail privation and relative subjugation.
Many people in this Age have traded in their more traditional religion for the Religion of Science. And they defend their religion as vehemently as any fundamentalist. They hoist their religion high on the flagpole of righteousness and progress. The followers of this religion believe that the problems of mankind can be solved by more technology, more information. Find it, analyze it, put it on paper, publish it, put it in a database, get it on the Internet, fill your head with it till it spins; the answer must be in there somewhere.
Stop. Solutions to the problems of the world will not be revealed or solved by science, technology, or more information. Piling complexity upon complexity does not solve problems, it only does what intuition would tell you; it generates mind boggling complexity for which you need a Ph.D. to even slightly comprehend one infinitesimal part.
The answers to the problems that plague the world and humanity are to be found deep within the heart of man, and sometimes not so deep. Our level of disconnection from the earth that we are intrinsically and inexorably a part of is greater than ever and increasing daily. This site is a call for people to put down their cell phones, remove the earphones from their ears, take their eyes away from the monitor — to become connected by disconnecting.
From here, you can read some notes, or for more information(!) write to info@donewith.info.