Thank you for another well reasoned, elegantly stated post. The rising background hum of "red wave" is just as toxic as the past three years of "six feet" and "safe and effective". If it can be reduced to a slogan, it's likely not your benefit.
I had a personal lesson in enslavement on Friday. I moved out to the country a year ago, but ha…
Thank you for another well reasoned, elegantly stated post. The rising background hum of "red wave" is just as toxic as the past three years of "six feet" and "safe and effective". If it can be reduced to a slogan, it's likely not your benefit.
I had a personal lesson in enslavement on Friday. I moved out to the country a year ago, but had to travel back towards town to go to a wedding. Before leaving, I did a quick search on Google maps (on my laptop) just to verify the route. After the wedding, I had a coupon in my email from a business I used to frequent when I lived in town. I haven't been there for at least three years. Funny thing, the timestamp on the email coupon corresponds to the exact moment that me and my phone were driving by the store.
Remember "kill your television". Kill your cellphone. It's a television on crack.
Exactly. Have you seen an ad yet that corresponded to a conversation you had while your phone was "asleep" nearby? They turn on the mics at all times now. Probably cameras too. When an old professor I met for coffee complained about his prostate, and I got home later to see prostate drug ads despite my phone being inside my bag, that was the final straw for me...some years ago.
I don't have anything on my phone feeds me ads, but I have heard about this phenomenon from other people. It typically elicits just an exasperated chuckle and eye roll. Zero outrage. What?! I'm increasing just unable to relate to other people. They seem like a different species.
This seems like my straw. My phone has been in airplane mode since while I research and ponder my options.
Why the hell do we need smart phones anyway? Just 15 years ago, before the original digital sin product began the process to do us all in, we lived just fine without being able to consult the do no evil brothers to answer any question we had on a whim. And we were just fine with that. Nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find anyone so much as simply waiting in a restaurant for their food to come without their nose being buried in their phone. People don't even know how to be themselves anymore, they get uncomfortable if they have to just sit or stand there without their constant stimulus of memes and posts. The greatest thing that could happen perhaps would be a power outage long enough that everyone's phone dies for at least a week.
Dickens used to wander the streets of London at all hours observing, overhearing, or just being lost in his own thoughts while letting the characters and plots of his latest creation come to fruition internally. His works may or may not be to one's liking, but there's a larger point. How much creativity, philosophy, and invention are squashed by that dictatorial demonic device?
So true! My husband was a musician and used to do his 'Kill TV Show'(which included smashing an old tv on stage) about 15 years ago here in Chicago. He also wrote a song about cell phones and cancer. Unfortunately, at the time, few people got it.
Thank you for another well reasoned, elegantly stated post. The rising background hum of "red wave" is just as toxic as the past three years of "six feet" and "safe and effective". If it can be reduced to a slogan, it's likely not your benefit.
I had a personal lesson in enslavement on Friday. I moved out to the country a year ago, but had to travel back towards town to go to a wedding. Before leaving, I did a quick search on Google maps (on my laptop) just to verify the route. After the wedding, I had a coupon in my email from a business I used to frequent when I lived in town. I haven't been there for at least three years. Funny thing, the timestamp on the email coupon corresponds to the exact moment that me and my phone were driving by the store.
Remember "kill your television". Kill your cellphone. It's a television on crack.
Exactly. Have you seen an ad yet that corresponded to a conversation you had while your phone was "asleep" nearby? They turn on the mics at all times now. Probably cameras too. When an old professor I met for coffee complained about his prostate, and I got home later to see prostate drug ads despite my phone being inside my bag, that was the final straw for me...some years ago.
I don't have anything on my phone feeds me ads, but I have heard about this phenomenon from other people. It typically elicits just an exasperated chuckle and eye roll. Zero outrage. What?! I'm increasing just unable to relate to other people. They seem like a different species.
This seems like my straw. My phone has been in airplane mode since while I research and ponder my options.
Why the hell do we need smart phones anyway? Just 15 years ago, before the original digital sin product began the process to do us all in, we lived just fine without being able to consult the do no evil brothers to answer any question we had on a whim. And we were just fine with that. Nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find anyone so much as simply waiting in a restaurant for their food to come without their nose being buried in their phone. People don't even know how to be themselves anymore, they get uncomfortable if they have to just sit or stand there without their constant stimulus of memes and posts. The greatest thing that could happen perhaps would be a power outage long enough that everyone's phone dies for at least a week.
Dickens used to wander the streets of London at all hours observing, overhearing, or just being lost in his own thoughts while letting the characters and plots of his latest creation come to fruition internally. His works may or may not be to one's liking, but there's a larger point. How much creativity, philosophy, and invention are squashed by that dictatorial demonic device?
The great irony of these times is they are called smart devices. They are smart, so you don't have to be.
So true! My husband was a musician and used to do his 'Kill TV Show'(which included smashing an old tv on stage) about 15 years ago here in Chicago. He also wrote a song about cell phones and cancer. Unfortunately, at the time, few people got it.
Caline, I'm worried few people get it even now. My grandfather called TV "the idiot box". Now everyone's got an idiot box in the the palm of his hand.