Nature and Technology
FIELD 4: Nature and Technology
In this extract from “The home we build together: Recreating Society, 2007” written by Jonathan Sacks, various problems of today’s society are presented to the reader. Sacks begins this extract by saying that because of globalisation and how everything now is extended to an international rather than national dimension, the national cultures and nations risk to fall apart.
The writer firstly explains that some time ago as there were less sources from which the people could choose from, it was better as they were ‘forced’ to hear to a variety of ideas and points of view: “As long as there were newspapers and a small number of radio and television news networks, people were exposed to a variety of views.” After this Sacks explains that nowadays with many more radios, global news channels, internet, etc. people can choose from which source to hear a certain news or event; as the writer says there is a great difference in watching al-Jazeera or watching Fox, as they will say different things and even if the argument was the same they would still have completely different points of view. Therefore due to globalisation everyone can practically choose what they want to hear and can act as if it was the only ‘truth’ or point of view. With this Sacks means that it is not longer necessary to have to hear and possibly accept different points of view, one can rather always listen to the same channel or TV show whose points of view are most similar to his, and ignore everything else. The writer says: “ the result is that our prejudices are confirmed, and need never be disturbed”. The meaning of this is very clear; due to this vast variety of sources and of opinions to which many can have access to (especially online), the people who believe to be getting informed are always getting a distorted version of the truth and never a objective vision of anything.
Jonathan Sacks also shows some of the downsides of globalisation. Normally we
In this extract from “The home we build together: Recreating Society, 2007” written by Jonathan Sacks, various problems of today’s society are presented to the reader. Sacks begins this extract by saying that because of globalisation and how everything now is extended to an international rather than national dimension, the national cultures and nations risk to fall apart.
The writer firstly explains that some time ago as there were less sources from which the people could choose from, it was better as they were ‘forced’ to hear to a variety of ideas and points of view: “As long as there were newspapers and a small number of radio and television news networks, people were exposed to a variety of views.” After this Sacks explains that nowadays with many more radios, global news channels, internet, etc. people can choose from which source to hear a certain news or event; as the writer says there is a great difference in watching al-Jazeera or watching Fox, as they will say different things and even if the argument was the same they would still have completely different points of view. Therefore due to globalisation everyone can practically choose what they want to hear and can act as if it was the only ‘truth’ or point of view. With this Sacks means that it is not longer necessary to have to hear and possibly accept different points of view, one can rather always listen to the same channel or TV show whose points of view are most similar to his, and ignore everything else. The writer says: “ the result is that our prejudices are confirmed, and need never be disturbed”. The meaning of this is very clear; due to this vast variety of sources and of opinions to which many can have access to (especially online), the people who believe to be getting informed are always getting a distorted version of the truth and never a objective vision of anything.
Jonathan Sacks also shows some of the downsides of globalisation. Normally we