re: #55 Justanotherhuman

It appears that some are trying to “objectify” communications, and I think that’s a slippery slope. I really do prefer the company of human beings, not the cold comfort of a machine, which can be a very lonely place.

Everyone does, other than those with severe social anxiety or other disorders of communication. That’s not arguable.

By objectifying our communications and our daily working lives, aren’t we running the risk of having that tilt to a one-sidedness? When we start to prefer pure objectivism and eschew subjectivism, we wind up with either communism or libertarianism and a very shallow connection with others.

I can’t really follow this. I don’t get how communications are ‘objectified’. Can you explain? I also have no clue how this leads to communism or libertarianism.

It is our emotions, our connectedness as human beings that sets us apart from machinery. Compartmentalizing ourselves even further than we do today, and slipping in and out of “roles” is something I would prefer not to do.

This is a baffling bit to me. How is writing on facebook different from writing letters, other than you can do it faster? Also , you seem to be combining complaints about technology with complaints about the working world—not really very related.

I had to do that to some extent when I was a working woman, to put my kids out of the picture, so to speak, while on the job, to not allow personal problems to interfere, and to make the job my raison d’tre while I was there. Somewhere down the road, I learned to hate those jobs, the artificiality of it all, and everything they stood for, and wished I had prepared for something else, a job that involved people I wasn’t forced to be with day in and day out while I missed the very ones I loved to be with. I also think those same feelings affect a lot of working women since it is more difficult for us to compartmentalize. It’s not that we hate working, it’s the work atmosphere itself which is not inviting to families, and I don’t see that getting any better.

I’m unclear how this relates, and are you making a biotruths argument that women are worse at compartmentalizing than men?