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Apathy and a general slump in manners, thought and communication in-person has arisen from a few generations of attack on the family unit, traditionalism and as a almost pathogenic-feeling factor of the mind regarding technological advance.
One may now enjoy quick, precise and effortless communication via electronic gadgets. Yet a price being paid is these gadgets in the arena of traditionalism and manners; with many children and even adults revoking the notion of conversation to embrace something that cannot be more important on their mobile phone or tablet. This may seem like a minor bitching however the consequences will last as children brought up like this will have less understanding of their families and thus less interest in protecting the family unit when parents themselves. They will grow up with less ability to think critically and receive information, they will gain an adulthood with a inadequate attention span and ability to speak to their own children.
All of this builds an apathetic atmosphere and is as damaging to young children as taking away their education.
I saw a middle-aged couple dining with presumably one of their parents; a frail appeared, old lady who was sat around the table with them. They were both glued to their mobile devices for an extended period of time, leaving the aged lady sat rejected and without converse. This, I thought, will only get worse when said couple are old themselves and sat with a younger generation; all of whom may be using their devices.
This will act as another cog in the anti-family machine that will, in part, inhibit children from the joys of understanding who their family really is; their heritage and history and thus the importance of standing up for family rights and rights of the individual. Further apathy created from this dinner-silence will only go to help the cause of big government and stripping of civil liberties without such people not even know its happening. This is why the response Nick Clegg gave regarding the check-out worker and her amazing and brave refusal to serve a customer on a mobile phone was sickening; he backed the worker yet benefits from such 'enviro-apathy'.
Nick Clegg attacked this 'modern curse' yet as usual didn't come up with any responsible resolution to a problem that will only get worse. He stated that he has 'banned' devices around his dinner table and in stating so he's only subjected that he has made his children do so rather than them wanting to interact. Devices at dinner tables shouldn't even be discussed or thought of whatsoever. This is enabling, in part, people to have no understanding of conversation in real life to an extent and is partially responsible for knee jerk reactions when people face an opposing point of view on a matter and
A sensible resolution could come in the form of letting businesses or all sizes make policy on such an issue. No mobile devices at restaurant dinner tables is very plausible as a house-rule and would encourage a better atmosphere within such a restaurant. It would give diners the opportunity to not dine there if such customers are so hooked on wired communication and it would allow such a business to exert a measure of integrity and tradition to its premise. I'd even go as far to state that it would help weak parents get their children off devices when they are supposed to be eating and conversing with their families.
Or perhaps we are to sit back and do nothing and allow such people to do nothing themselves. That would make Nick Clegg happy.
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