I am so often the only person in a room not glued to a phone. Most often, I don't carry my phone with me. My deal with phones is more of a pathology than a virtue.
It's interesting to watch something change the personal world so completely and profoundly. At first, it was younger people. Being older, I was naturally ignorantly disdainful. As the change spread to persons of all ages, I was worried, but I changed my disposition to neutral. Just because I can't see how this is a good thing doesn't mean it isn't a good thing.
I probably concluded this while in a waiting room idly thinking rather than absorbing ephemera from a little electronic box.
Since video tape machines, it has become possible to keep children distracted watching the same shows over and over. Now that concept is portable and provides access to everything including the occasional plan to attack Yemen.
Original thought is what I think we lose. We become quoting machines who choose a position and regurgitate whatever makes us feel more secure and righteous.
I'm concluding now that all of this is a bad thing. Another bad thing that I can have absolutely no affect on.
My sorta out there brother mentioned years ago that the powers that be want a big die-off. Back then he was only sorta out there, so often his predictions worked out. It was worth remembering the things he said for that reason.
We have a (now) billionaire leading the Murder Cult Party taking step after step to kill or instill policies that will result in huge death tolls worldwide. We've abandoned AIDS programs in Africa, some specifically assigned to treat HIV-positive children. PLAGUE We don't ship food or aid for food FAMINE We've stepped aside from peacemaking and support an invader WAR What does all of this get us? DEATH
I've though for decades that if there is a guiding intelligence to the universe, it must be based in irony and self-fulfilling prophecy. A wry smile for those gods fucking around with the Book of Revelation.
I haven't seen this rhetorical device in a while. I guess it's because all the cultists stay segregated.
Two things are going on here. On the surface, it attacks persons attempting to maintain a virtue as hypocrites when they fail to be perfect.
Beneath the surface is the usual writhing bag of snakes mental illness of the Limbaugh-ists: Because you fail to fully adhere to a virtue you preach, there is no reason for me to be accountable for adhering at all!
Gee, what kind of people are anti-tolerance? The best people, of course!
I never expected them to stomp the lowest bar for decency (simple tolerance) all the way to the ground.