Penn and Teller just did an episode of BS! on this same exact point, it was really good and brings up a lot of the same points ya'll are making.
http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?episodeid=130995&seriesid=134If you have Showtime I recommend the show in general.
When I start talking about the good ol' days, all I mean is when I was in college 7 years ago or so, not paying rent (parents), working 20 hours a week if I worked, and partying my ass off.. not having bulging discs in my neck, no bills.. so yeah, it would be great to go back to the good ol' days, but I know that a lot of what we think of as the GO'D never existed.. what you really want is an idealistic dream you have of what life was.. do you really wanna work 80 hours a week on the farm to barely get by? Or are you saying you want the good days of when women were second class objects and people of color used different bathrooms and sat on the back of the bus, but all the white families were like on Leave it to Beaver?
Internet to do work, the rest of the time will be spent working on the house or doing something OUTSIDE like when I was growing up.
Even though I grew-up in the coming of the 'digital age' my parents did not let us get a nintendo, atari, etc, until YEARS after they came out. We spent our time outside building forts, playing with bb guns, bows and arrows, cap guns, etc.
So you're doing what here exactly? This is work or you not using the internet?
I grew up building forts and playing outside, while playing on the computer and watching TV, they're not mutually exclusive. Now I'm an IT Manager who likes to go outside and play on the weekends.. I don't see the harm.
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