tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post1283189153109587669..comments2023-08-25T16:13:51.356+01:00Comments on Martin In The Margins: The internet: social interaction for introverts?Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-27396777681133414372009-09-02T17:22:41.899+01:002009-09-02T17:22:41.899+01:00wow, this is a great film clip you posted here. i&...wow, this is a great film clip you posted here. i've often wondered why no one in the golden age of science fiction back in the 1950s and 60s ever really seemed to have predicted the internet. i suppose it's because by the year 2000, we were all supposed to have flying cars; what we got instead was the cell phone and the internet. but that really has less to do with personality types (introvert vs. extrovert) and much more to do with the destruction of space by time, which is one of the things that capitalism is all about.<br /><br />of course, one's use of the internet also has something to do with another well-known dichotomy: employed vs. unemployed<br /><br />lesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-28559339921337125032009-06-09T11:54:22.233+01:002009-06-09T11:54:22.233+01:00What a fascinating comment, Martin - and how intri...What a fascinating comment, Martin - and how intriguing that my post sent you off along this path of lateral thinking. But I suppose that's the internet for you - maybe it appeals to the lateral thinking / grasshopper mind aspect of the introverted personality! I shall follow up the Habermas - Ratzinger debate....You'll have noticed that I'm no great fan of the current pontiff (they should have chosen Martini of Milan, and not just because of his name), but I'm reassured by his appeals to reason and respect in argumentation.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-48733433627287467902009-06-09T10:36:55.370+01:002009-06-09T10:36:55.370+01:00A few years ago, a lovely debate between Joseph Ra...A few years ago, a lovely debate between Joseph Ratzinger and Jurgen Habermas surprised people by breaking out in consensus and respect. Habermas talked about the exterior wisdom of traditions and engagement with social institutions; the then-Cardinal talked of reason and the sense of comparing traditions, what he called co-relationality, without resting on God or natural law. It was an argument for the courtesy and friendship that you sometimes find on the blog; I don't know if it particularly appeals to introverts, unless by that you mean those who rest on the reason behind their eyes more than the sensual impulses that emerge from outside it. <br /><br />In any event (however I read in writing this) you made me think of that with this post. You understand more things in a courteous argument with friends than in any number of rows, in my experience, and I wish most of the political and media classes would learn that.Martin Meenaghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092121503713511010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-12229867882691599892009-06-02T00:18:26.657+01:002009-06-02T00:18:26.657+01:00Thanks to you and Bob too! I will post a more deve...Thanks to you and Bob too! I will post a more developed reply soon...TNChttp://newcentrist.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-59333298210985890092009-06-01T09:50:03.548+01:002009-06-01T09:50:03.548+01:00I think you are completely right. I am an introver...I think you are completely right. I am an introvert in the way Rauch describes it, yet the internet has allowed me to expand my base of "friends" and "acquaintances" far and wide. (Here I am, emotionally involved in the birth of TC Jr, for example, even never having "met" the flesh version of dad!) And I don't think any of my non-virtual relationships have suffered as a result, although I have heard that can happen.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com