Journal 9

I skimmed. Then, I realized what I was skimming, and slowed down a bit. Went back over some of the important stuff I missed. Everything made a lot more sense, Nicholas Carr hit a bad nerve that my and my peer's generation have to suffer. Processing tons of information and diffusing information from a body of text destroys the heart for reading. Books are shortened on sparknotes, imbd has movie summaries and analyses, and most any question you can possibly ask can be answered with a little browsing on google. Information comes at us so fast that we struggle to remember everything and instead we skim the information we take in and keep the important things. I find it completely natural sometimes. Carr brought up how Nietzsche changed his style of writing, which changed his method of taking in information. The change in his style of writing shows how drastic it would be for our minds to change from reading on paper, to a screen. There are also many other ways other than google that can hit you with a lot of information. Stumbleupon is a website that allows you to "stumble" around the internet. Constantly, new information pops up as you please. I think that our minds our being overloaded with information. It deals with it by takeing in only the most important parts of the information we process. Details left out can skew many topics, and change the direction of any subject. Slowing down is important because sometimes your mind needs to relax. You will feel, and do better when you do go back to writing research papers and lab reports.