tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post7361368190109261652..comments2024-03-29T07:15:11.234+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Jack Myers and Virtual WorldsMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-36197943306287300432020-05-26T13:21:25.187+01:002020-05-26T13:21:25.187+01:00Informative post. Thanks for sharing
Academic Essa...Informative post. Thanks for sharing<br /><a href="https://assignmentfirm.com/essay-help/academic-essays-help.php" rel="nofollow">Academic Essays Help</a>KeiraDoltanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353070905271849441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-63748659458539962432020-03-16T09:59:59.239+00:002020-03-16T09:59:59.239+00:00Interesting. It’ll be useful for all students That...Interesting. It’ll be useful for all students That’ll be a time saver.<br /><a href="https://www.excellentassignmenthelp.com.au/cheap-assignment-help" rel="nofollow">Cheap Assignment Help Australia</a>Assignment Helphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14764667231488131911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-39312450159658089672010-05-03T14:11:20.657+01:002010-05-03T14:11:20.657+01:00And so it goes, continue to find food to live.And so it goes, continue to find food to live.gihhttp://get-infoz.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-17702044563426996802007-08-31T22:14:00.000+01:002007-08-31T22:14:00.000+01:00Fiction writers of a certain age will doubtless re...Fiction writers of a certain age will doubtless remember Georges Polti's Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The people who tried to teach fiction-writing back in golden times that mostly weren't held that the situations having the power to arouse emotion were that limited in number. It began, they said, way back in 1750 with Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Goethe and Schiller also agreed with the total. So yes, the book on emotional triggers surely has been written . . . and rewritten . . . and rewritten . . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-12109810233394727492007-08-31T20:47:00.000+01:002007-08-31T20:47:00.000+01:00"Go, go, go, said the bird: human kindCannot bear ..."Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind<BR/>Cannot bear very much reality."<BR/><BR/>(T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton')Clary Antomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10728784994847295524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-80295133165030567422007-08-31T19:12:00.000+01:002007-08-31T19:12:00.000+01:00I'm happy there's a web site for "intelligent TV f...I'm happy there's a web site for "intelligent TV fans." Is there a site for the stupid ones?<BR/><BR/>I, too, think this is all wonderful. As one or two wizards direct us, we'll be like rats rushing (in neat order) down virtual sewers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-57533726365716207422007-08-31T16:58:00.000+01:002007-08-31T16:58:00.000+01:00Manipulation of emotions is not new: history is aw...Manipulation of emotions is not new: history is awash with grotesque examples. It is present every time we switch on the TV or open a paper. What triggers particular emotions? That is obvious too. But we are not all triggered in the same way. When I was a kid and went to the pictures with my sister, if I did not laugh at Laurel and Hardy (or whoever, that she, and millions like her found funny) she would dig me in the ribs and demand that I laugh! THAT I did find funny! It is pretty obvious which newspapers she reads and TV programmes she watches. As, no doubt, might be said of my preferences.<BR/>News programmes are often (usually?) aimed at the emotions, they can make the less newsworthy seem spectacular. "They" are all at it — the spinners and weavers of politics and society.<BR/><BR/>There can be no doubt, our minds are 'got at' through our emotions. Children need to know what it is to 'live and breath and have our being' and they will not get that through a Virtual World, but through good parenting, a good home and social life.<BR/><BR/>And yet, for an old biddie like me, the Internet has opened my eyes to enormous possibilities and friendships. When friends and family are dying off at regular intervals, that is something not to be sneezed at. But we have a duty to make sure young people are not being drawn into dubious friendships and practices. We are all subject to our emotions, some more than others, but children are especially vulnerable.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I do not see the need for research into emotional triggers. The 'book' surely must be written already. Isn't that the bible of today's 'spinners' and weavers'?<BR/>GHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-15179384393582185702007-08-31T15:37:00.000+01:002007-08-31T15:37:00.000+01:00'Virtual world' - always seems to be used in such ...'Virtual world' - always seems to be used in such a way as to suggest that it is somehow not part of reality and that they are all wizzy and new. If you look beyond the bells and whistles, the smoke and mirrors, they are quite clearly part of reality and nothing new.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-31849451112421658122007-08-31T11:43:00.000+01:002007-08-31T11:43:00.000+01:00Yessir we should be appalled. It is demagoguery, ...Yessir we should be appalled. It is demagoguery, older than Euripides and will prevail with the uncritical thinker. And you know as well as C.S. Lewis in "Abolitin of Man" that modern education preserves the lessons of critical thinker not for the masses but the privileged. You know about class systems, yes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com