Anthropology Technology Reflection

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Dan DiStasio Cultural Anthropology Dr. Savastano 3/22/2012 Culture Shock and Technology 12 PM on March 15, 2012. For the next five hours, I was not to touch my cell phone, turn on my laptop or watch the television. I was to make the next five hours go by as quickly as possible and get back to the technology-obsessed world in which we all live. “This is going to be hell,” I thought to myself. How in the world am I supposed to go five whole hours without texting my goofy friends about the stupid stuff I do while I’m away at school, or without catching the latest episode of Modern Family on my laptop? This was going to be a long five hours. I started “Operation Amish” by doing the unimaginable. I went to the gym. I hadn’t lifted a weight since senior year of high school, and that was only because my football coach forced me to four days a week. I lifted weights for about 45 minutes, until my arms were about as strong and stable as two strings of spaghetti, and then I decided to run for as long as my injury-laden back would allow me to (which was about four and a half minutes, sadly.) By the time I arrived back at my house, an hour had passed. 20% done with the project, and I had already exhausted every option of time killing I thought possible. After I showered and dressed, my immediate inclination was to take a nap. But then I thought to myself “No! That’s cheating!” and decided against it. If I was going to complete this mission, I was going to do it the right way. So I made myself a nice homemade taylor ham, egg and cheese sandwich on a bagel (I hope stoves don’t count as “technology”) and engorged myself in my lunch. When I finished with that, I looked up at the clock. 1:50 PM. I spent the next hour writing. I wrote songs, poems, thoughts; anything I was feeling went down in my marble notebook. I realized that it is much more peaceful to write
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