Weekend Luddite
TechnoTheory points to an article at Everyday Systems that has coined the perfect phrase: Weekend Luddite.
Luddites, historically, were craftsman who railed against the growing technology that threatened to destroy their livelihood. In more recent times the term has been used, pejoratively or not, to describe Neil Postman-esque techno-phobes. Those opposed to technology for more philosophical/pedagogical reasons.
Reinhard Engels at Everyday Systems is using it to say: Stop obsessing over your laptop, iPhone and Blackberry when you don’t have to. As he explains:
For every “labor saving” device it seems there are at least two “time consuming” ones to soak up all that freed time again. T.S. Eliot wrote something about us moderns being “distracted by distraction from distraction,” and that was pre-Internet and pre-TV. We’re in infinitely worse shape now. I call this larger issue “distraction management.”
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