Refrigerator Rights excerpt

Posted by chuck maxwell on March 28th, 2009 filed in Chuck's blog

I am reading Refrigerator Rights by Dr. Will Miller. Here’s a few excerpts from his chapter on the media. Thought it applies to all of you/us who spend more time than we should doing what we’re doing right now.

• The social problem created by television and other electronic media are their very existence and the way they dominate our lives. Cut off as we are from our natural sources of intimacy, we turn to media instead of other people to cope. We spend hours upon hours looking at screens instead of into faces.
• We habitually try to substitute various sorts of media for deep, interpersonal relationships. While the media provide some of the atmospherics of close relationships, they ultimately fail to provide the real thing.

The statements make more sense in the context of the whole chapter. But you get the idea. Nothing really substitutes for or satisfies our need like face to face community.