Ourselves?

Michael Wesch certainly has some interesting ideas. In the video I watched for this week’s PLN called Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us.

It showed, in a very imaginative way I might add, how the web is a constantly moving and shifting, allowing us to move our way of thinking, learning, and living into a new era. Or at least, that’s what I got out of it. Maybe someone else will have a different interpretation.

            The thing is, I don’t necessarily agree with what Mr. Wesch is trying to say. Not all of it at least. Actually, it’s mostly the last two seconds that I have a problem with.  At the part when the video is just about to fade out, it leaves us with stating that we need to rethink ourselves.  Now, all the other things I get, love, government, authorship to name a few. But ourselves? Is that really what we will have to do in order to move on into this 2.0 world? If so, I fear for us. I really do. Our lives should not revolve around the online world. The things we do and say on the web affect our lives, however the web should change to suit us, not the other way around. I don’t want to trample on Mr. Wesch’s beliefs, but I’m not sure I agree with him on this one.