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Can any one of us deny it? The internet is controlling us? I mean, how often are we all on Facebook? How many hours of our free time?

Why does writing "hours" not faze us? We spend HOURS on that website. Daily. Well, maybe we're not that bad, but it's pretty bad. So, what is it doing to us? I think we're losing all initiative.

Ok, so I couldn't get the perfect quote from the novel to accent my point, but I have a quote from Vonnegut himself: "Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. "

What a thing for the proponent of almight science to say eh? Although, looking into the book, I think Vonnegut really advocates personal faiths. Of any kind. To him, these beliefs are foma, harmless to him, but highly beneficial to the owner of said foma.

But, society as a whole today shuns the publicity of such acts of faith. We can't sit back and just look at life, as Vonnegut says, but search for new knowledge. And, of course, this is great, but what good does all of this knowledge do for us?

Ludolph van Ceulen spent a large part of his life calculating pi, I think he got up to 35 decimal places.

And now? Useless. And the knowledge of how big pi is? Still pretty unexciting.

I don't know what to say really guys. I'm tired, and I've been more and more frustrated with the internet's hold on me lately. I just have this to say:

We should spend more time developing our relationships, our faiths, our arts, our humanity. Math and Science and information are fantastic but... I am more content in perhaps some ignorance, in exchange for happiness. (look at the bomb in Cat's Cradle. Did it bring anyone, even the creator, happiness at the knowledge? Nope. Just more war and a bunch of dead people). Meanwhile, the small family in a village, loving each other and sharing in faith and life, who knew nothing of luxuries of technology, were probably a lot happier.

So, ask yourself. COULD you do without some of this stuff? What, in perspective, are your priorities? What do you believe in?