There’s a commercial running right now that chills me to the bone. It’s a group of the elite and they are all enjoying a huge dinner out at a fancy restaurant. The bill arrives at $4,000.00 and the hostess whips out her phone and does quick calculations and announces everyone at this long table owes $37.00
The guests all whip out their phones and using the phones transfer the monies directly to the hostess’s bank account.
Mike and I sat in stunned silence. We as a society are becoming so dependent on technology. Mike has a favorite saying “Take away our batteries and we become a nation of idiots.”
I’ve noticed hardly anyone wears watches anymore. Ask someone the time, they whip out their phones to tell you. At a rare dinner out the other night- most of the diners were sharing booths and were either on the cell phones or they were texting.
On the news last night they announced that parents would be better off texting punishments to their kids rather than telling them about it! I’m thinking, “yeah you can text to your teen that their cell phone is off limits for a month!”
Mike and I don’t own a cell phone. I had one for awhile but didn’t find much benefit in it so I turned it back in.
So the question of the day is where are we traveling, and what are we going to do when we get there? And, is there anyone sending postcards along the way?
This recent story just slams home what I am talking about- and oh my heaven’s how sad for the boy on the bike and his family.
I hope never to own a cell phone, though I do acknowledge it has its uses, especially for women who are, for instance, travelling alone. But you can determine how useful a technology is by asking yourself if people panicked five years ago when they couldn’t text someone from a bus, or ten years ago when they couldn’t call someone from a street corner. How did they talk then? They waited until they met, then spoke in person. Obviously what they are talking about now on their phones is of little importance. But then maybe so was what they talked about in person…
I hate technology. I didn’t want a computer until my DH forced me into it. Same thing with my cell and I just got a Nook for Christmas. Now I love it all but I do not want anything new! Until I’m forced into it.
Thats the problem with living in a “police state”.People living in it think its an event on the horizon when its already all around us.The elites are preparing for when the reality sinks into the majority.