Saturday, March 8, 2008

Would it be the same Today????

On Monday night we had a really good discussion about the free speech movement that ahppened in Berkeley in the 60's. a really good question was raised, that if something like that would could happen today. There are still many protests going on today but i can't recall something to that extreme. part of Berkeley's huge success was the population of supporters. That is how they made a huge impact was by sitting on campus day in and day out during the whole movement. Now the question could something of that magnitude happen today? I really don't know what I think, I don't if that same thing could happen today, with the currant technology. I feel like we are so very spoiled by computers and the internet, that people don't do as much in person. ehat I mean is instead of the protestes in the sixtites sitting day in and day out to spread the word through campus, of that happened today, they would have probabaly just sent out emails, and posted blogs.. and so on. It kinda saddens me because I feel like technology has made many things inpersonal today........