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Rachel Shenk's avatar

We often go camping where we have no phone or internet access. At first, it seems strange and then, it feels freeing. We are no longer carrying the weight of everything out there. Highly recommend. So maybe I stand for the middle ground?

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Erik Hogan's avatar

Lol, things are the way they are, so I use the Internet and modern tech like anyone else. But I wasn't built for this modern world of daily wages, taxes, politics, and computers. There is a huge part of me that wants it all to collapse in the zombie apocalypse!

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Justin S. Bailey's avatar

Haha I feel that as well. Reset and try again humans. Lol!

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Marlo Leaman's avatar

I also am middle ground. I don't think we can abandon the internet totally-how now would we check our bank accounts, find directions, or get the news asap (we could maybe do without that!). When I lived in Costa Rica, we owned a business and yes, needed the internet to conduct business, run the website, take reservations for our hotel. We didn't have TVs and I used less apps for things than I do now back in the states. I read a lot, walked a lot, checked out from the constant digitalness of the news (at the time it was also Trump's 1st 4 years) and in general I think with less things digital my life was much improved.

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Grace Drigo's avatar

I agree with so many points here. Excellent essay Justin. 💙

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Justin S. Bailey's avatar

Thank you Grace! :)

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Hamish's avatar

Wikipedia alone makes the Internet worth it.

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Justin S. Bailey's avatar

I think I’d be good with an Internet that was just Wikipedia and a vast digital library of all the world’s literature…and comments permanently disabled. Ha!

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