If I can get benefits I’m all for it
Filed Under (Health & Fitness, Internet) by Don C on 20-06-2008
If these guys are so smart, how can they be so wrong? A leading psychiatrist, Dr Jerald Block on Internet addiction:
“The relationship is with the computer. It becomes a significant other to them. They exhaust emotions that they could experience in the real world on the computer through any number of mechanisms: emailing, gaming, porn.”
I can hear in my mind the German psychiatrist played by Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels explaining this phenomena.
But with all due respect, no one is having a relationship with a computer. A lot of smart people still dont “get” the Internet. The Internet is not abstract; it’s real. All these sufferers of “Internet addiction” are not suffering alone with their computer, as it might appear to the outside, untrained eye. People who are spending their lives on the Net are spending it with other people; other people playing games; other people emailing; other people looking at porn. There is a whole other world through the portal of the computer, a world not restricted by physical limitations. A psychiatrist of all people should understand this.
“But there’s not any dancing, is there?” asks the Church Lady.
Oh yeah, there is lots of dancing.
