a little bit of ebonything

  “Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing… Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid… we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region.” In a letter to his sister, Walton describes his feelings of intoxication of wonder and discovery through getting closer to his desire. “I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the slight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man. These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear or danger or death.” He describes his curiosity as a hunger to distinguish himself as a pioneer, and how this drive gives him the confidence to go through even the scariest of emotions, as if conquering his humanity. “These visions faded when I pursued for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven… I imagined ...

            There’s a book I began reading in my English Literature & Composition class. It’s titled  “What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains The Shallows”  by Nicholas Carr. The internet is a digital landscape representative of every aspect of our world, but our "physical world" would be forever changed without it, can we change it? In Carr’s introduction, he states “The Shallows explains why we were mistaken about the net” our perceptions of the Internet and what we think it will do for us are not in alignment with what it actually does. He says “When it comes to the quality of our thoughts and judgments, the amount of information that communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn our brain takes it in.” The Internet as an interface for communication has a bigger impact on how we internalize information than the information itself. He says “It takes patience ...

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