A Further Example of How Convenience 'Spoils' Us

Tweet

It literally 'ruins' us for the inconvenient 'work' we have to do when the convenience is unavailable. Case in point: my blog. Earlier (months ago, I think) I used a Windows-program to write my blog. The program had an auto-link function where--if I told it I wanted a word 'hyperlinked to a certain site' every time I used that word--it would automatically hyperlink that word every time I typed it. But then the publicly-shared program got too 'updated' to be compatible with my Windows Vista OS. 'That's fine,' I thought. 'I can just go back to "looking up each of the pages I want certain-words to be linked to, and hyperlinking the individual words every time I blog them" as I did for years before I used Windows Live Writer!' But no! I'm sorely tempted--when I look at a post full of words I'm going to have to look up & individually hyperlink--to 'just skip it' and go do something else ... when I got used to 'such a "project"' only taking a few minutes, it doesn't seem to be "worth my time" to take an HOUR to do the same thing (although it was worth my time before I found Windows Live Writer). I guess 'email' ruined 'letter-writing' the same way---before email, a good way to share your thoughts with a friend far-away (if you weren't a well-known writer with access to publishing equipment) was 'a written letter sent by "snail-mail" (although they didn't exactly call it "snail-mail" at the time).' But--now that you can 'share your thoughts with a far away friend' by simply turning on your computer (which usually automatically logs onto the Internet), typing your thoughts, and clicking SEND--a snail-mail letter seems more like 'a souvenir from camp' or 'a moon-rock' or 'an important communique' than just 'a casual message.' ... That's the basic observation behind old-people's "Kids today ..." complaints.