Dumbing down… A possibility?
An opinion piece by James Ormiston
This is an idea of what could be… I’ve still to decide.
Dumbing down, or more to the point, moving away from the smartphone and all its distractions.
- Have you found yourself at some point, lost when you looked up from your mobile phone due to having your head buried in what’s on the screen?
- Have you walked into a lamppost while walking, reading something on the screen?
- Have you almost ended up under a bus or lorry due to the above?
If you answered yes to any of those questions then you’re not alone and, fortunately, you have lived to be here today, some have not.
Everywhere you go, most folk have their heads in a world that’s in front of them on a 6” screen and do not see what’s around them, which can, in certain circumstances, be very unsafe as they are not truly aware; but that’s taking it to the extreme in most cases.
But we do spend too much time looking at a screen rather looking up and out at the world around us.
Moments in time pass us bye that will never repeat ever again, things like the beautiful sunrise that we saw last week ( I write this in a cafe on the 20th October), yes similar sunrises will happen again and again: but not that one.