Wah lau David, it’s not written as a personal attack…. it’s written in a way because I don’t subscribe to your ideology. Yes, I described your reasoning as ‘silly’, and it’s only that... not you, as the writer. Just like I don’t regard the scriptwriter ‘stupid’ when I feel that the movie itself is ‘stupid’. Get the difference?
But of course if you are honestly pissed with my comment, I will apologize.
Nonetheless, I still stick to my stand that the first half of your initial post (on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 11:53 am), you seem to indicate the use of Internet and modern technology plays a major influence in causing a relationship to falter (ie.Divorce), hence I disagree with this linkage on ‘Instantaneous Response’.
And my subsequent posts aim to disagree (from your initial post) that while it might be true that the current generation might have lesser stress tolerance levels as compared to the older generations… it boils right down to the values of the latter generation (which includes self-sacrifice for bad reasons). It shldn’t be the pinpointing on the Internet and modern technology to a large extent.
But of course, in your next post you argued that you are actually questioning on ‘How the present mass media (Internet included) change the way we deal with relationships. Is it also a case of "what we see happening around us, and so we do it the same way too?" (Think Western influence of divorce on our Asian culture.)’
Well, I view this as an open-ended discussion, but look at your initial post (1st half) – you've already look it as “Big Culprit”… and you somewhat blame ‘the instantaneous digital lifestyle’ as an influence on Divorces – to me, it’s pretty much negativity written over it from the start.
Go ahead…. call me ‘poor reader’, call me a ‘non Uni-graduate’… I don’t really give a damn, cos’ im not as uptight and I welcome criticisms too.
P/S: For the record, i pretty much agree with most of your second half (initial post) – see my last paragraph (on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 9:39 am)
