Feel I disagree with this –I feel I do, rather than actually doing so– but can positively confirm a strong sense of disagreement. Why (what words does this ‘strong sense’ evoke):–
The Humanities are proponents of the solitary and so necessarily in conflict with technology, which is a proponent of the “connected” and “linked in”. Technology represents ‘the crowd’ while the humanities represent ‘the one.” (Monarchy could have/ did repeatedly, survive democracy in the ancient world, but could it have/ can it, survive technology today? Can an individual?)
To have a chance of not being utterly decimated in this conflict — supposing it to have already been defeated– and supposing further its decimation to be undesirable, the humanities’ greatest champions should be put forward; and Shakespeare, “being clearly the greatest champion of English literature” and so forth –and of the humanities probably too– should consequently be focused on: it is Shakespeare that ought to meet the Hector of Technology….
In short, the best secular reason one might give for going for a walk (solitude) instead of surfing the web (the crowd) is Shakespeare — concludes, not entirely unreasonably, the voice evoked by this “strong sense.”
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