Ladies, gentlemen and budding journalists - today we bring you our first article from a StarrFan! That's right, this is one of the many submissions we've had here at Coalition 9. Please keep them coming - we're getting through them all. Enjoy!
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Has the ‘Rise of The Machines’, so eloquently put by our own Mr Starr (I wonder where he got that from?) really brought about the end of the social skills our ‘ancestors spent perfecting?’. Or are these skills just lacking, yet replaced with a hatred of the very technology commissioned to replace them? Certainly technology has helped us, we can while away our evenings in front of the box, we can talk to someone by text, and we can trawl through the depths of Facebook looking for our soon-to-be (although she doesn’t know it yet) sweetheart.
Isn’t it Mr Starr’s choice to sit at home, staring at his computer screen, blaming technology for his sociological woes? Why should he speak for the rest of Lancaster – and indeed the country’s – student population by presuming we all sit, waiting for our seminars and that enforced, yet much needed, human contact? To blame technology for self induced isolation is cowardly!
Think of the poor old man who innocently tried to engage our hero in conversation, only for the subject to be turned to death, diabetes and then to paper mills of all things. Riveting. Truly, riveting.
Turn ON your lava lamp, while away the hours on your games console and please do not engage me in conversation and let me use the time to go and talk to someone who is, well, interesting.
-- A StarrFan
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