Rationalization said:
Ossian said:
My dad can be pretty ignorant. Hes really old fashion and religious, while I'm a free thinker and also religious.
Today he told me basically I'm wasting my life with social interactions on the computer. And Txting was making everyone stupid and disconnected.
He also told me hard work cures depression.
Stickyreiss said:
Ossian said:
My dad can be pretty ignorant. Hes really old fashion and religious, while I'm a free thinker and also religious.
Today he told me basically I'm wasting my life with social interactions on the computer. And Txting was making everyone stupid and disconnected.
He also told me hard work cures depression.
Both of those are actually valid points.
When I come to a family gathering and I see everyone on their phones texting other people instead of talking to the people at the fucking table, it drives me up the wall.
And the second statement is true in many cases of situational depression.
The feeling of success and a job well done (both earned through hard work) can pull someone out of their depression.
Now, to clarify; that would not be helpful with clinically diagnosed chronic depression.
He's kinda right. Social interactions on the computer usually differ from the real life networking that can build career helping associates and friends that you see in the real life. Which if in his mind your "life" is building a career then a family, etc. It's right in his mind. And a structured routine CAN help with depression, along with a host of other mental illness. The hard work gives you structure which leaves less to chance and less time to dwell it also depending on the work, which judging from kind of man he seems to be makes you tired, giving you good rest increasing seratonin levels. Give your old man a break = P.
Then why are actors, millions airs etc all the unhappiest people in the world? They work hard and have built empires in their names, yet a lot of them are angry bitter people, or even kill themselves.
My mother works 3 part time jobs and is the unhappiest person I've ever met. If something is causing depression, working won't fix it, you have to think your way out of it, change your life, or face the problem head on. Working won't help any more than playing video games. Both will only offer some distraction.
As for social networking, I offer it as a boon to lift socially crippled. I was isolated growing up and I had friends online, nowadays I keep track of my IRL on facebook or by texting them, at family outtings, sure I text occasionally, but most the time its because I have nothing in common with my family and I use texting to pass the time.
In my dad's day they'd just fake it.
Technology =/= replace social interaction.
Technology = Help social interaction.
That was my argument, he didn't see it.
