I could start this out with
a rant about how much I HATE social media sites like this one, but who would
care. I only have a dozen or so friends and most of them are already aware of
how much I dislike the way social media is used on a second by second basis by
all of the people who have succumbed to the world’s greatest addiction and so
for them I will bypass the rant and get straight into it.
NO ONE CARES!!! They may act
like they do, but they are just modern day Romans doing what one does when
in Rome. ALL of the world’s sheep are being gathered for the slaughter and
there is nowhere left to run and hide because nothing is private anymore. We are
at a point in this world where we will not even speak to our neighbors in
person, but we will click a thumb up icon about a new car they recently
purchased. Are you kidding me? If I live next door to you and I see a new car
parked in your driveway for more than a day or two I would assume that you
bought a new car, no social media required.
I grew up in a world where
you played outside until the street lights came on and then you went home washed
up ate supper and communicated with your family over a meal. If you were not
home by the time dinner was served, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it
the following day and personal computers had not even been invented yet. Younger
people today would find this hard to believe that it is possible to know
something without first having googled it and that the world really was a much
better place to live in before the arrival of the age of technology .
Do you have to be smart to
survive in the age of technology? The answer is no you do not need to be smart
to survive in a technological world; all you need is a Wi-Fi connection for your
smart phone and the ability to tell a lie and you can do whatever your heart
desires. You can be sexy, smart, depressed, homeless, rich, poor, brokenhearted
or whatever you want to be; although it is slightly more difficult to portray
an intelligent person if you are not actually smart, but the World Wide Web is
full of suckers and without them the liars would have a limited playground. I
am an unofficial member of a very small group; I may even be the only member as
far as I know because I do not personally know another person that feels the
same way I do about the age of technology. “I guess it is because I do not network, but then if I did I would be a
bigot and a gossiper just like everyone else.” Well I am neither and I do not
feel the need to invite people I do not know into my home. Our homes use to be
our safe havens, now in this age of technology they have become our prisons.
Children never play outside anymore and it is not because it is any more
dangerous for them to be outside, their parents have already posted everything
on the internet that you would ever want to know about the family imprisoned
inside; the children are just becoming good little Romans just like their
parents.
I am not looking to become
the next big VIRAL thing, I am just
a normal guy that wants to live and enjoy his life without intrusion; and
besides most people do not even know what the word viral even means. Viral by
definition is relating to or caused by a virus, (for example a viral infection).
Little Billy crashing his bicycle into his father’s 100K sports car and breaking
his leg may be funny if you are a sick and twisted individual and since little
Billy’s bad cycling adventures has over a million hits that means there are a
great deal of sick individuals out there passing little Billy’s broken leg video
around like a viral infection. So the terminology “viral” actually does fit and
so does the point I am making with fictional little Billy and his broken leg;
99.9% of everything you see passed around on the internet is a virus that is
eating at your heart your mind and your very soul and you would be much happier
and healthier if you would just walk away from the electronics and go see what
life is really all about.
Where are the Romans now? Do
not become a theoretical dead Roman. Go tell your loved ones that you love them,
in person if possible and greet them with a big hug, if the distance is too
great to travel to get to a loved one, then call it is more meaningful than a
text. Live your life like you want to be loved every second of every day,
because before you know it your life will be over and who knows what will be
posted about you on the internet when that day
arrives.
a rant about how much I HATE social media sites like this one, but who would
care. I only have a dozen or so friends and most of them are already aware of
how much I dislike the way social media is used on a second by second basis by
all of the people who have succumbed to the world’s greatest addiction and so
for them I will bypass the rant and get straight into it.
NO ONE CARES!!! They may act
like they do, but they are just modern day Romans doing what one does when
in Rome. ALL of the world’s sheep are being gathered for the slaughter and
there is nowhere left to run and hide because nothing is private anymore. We are
at a point in this world where we will not even speak to our neighbors in
person, but we will click a thumb up icon about a new car they recently
purchased. Are you kidding me? If I live next door to you and I see a new car
parked in your driveway for more than a day or two I would assume that you
bought a new car, no social media required.
I grew up in a world where
you played outside until the street lights came on and then you went home washed
up ate supper and communicated with your family over a meal. If you were not
home by the time dinner was served, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it
the following day and personal computers had not even been invented yet. Younger
people today would find this hard to believe that it is possible to know
something without first having googled it and that the world really was a much
better place to live in before the arrival of the age of technology .
Do you have to be smart to
survive in the age of technology? The answer is no you do not need to be smart
to survive in a technological world; all you need is a Wi-Fi connection for your
smart phone and the ability to tell a lie and you can do whatever your heart
desires. You can be sexy, smart, depressed, homeless, rich, poor, brokenhearted
or whatever you want to be; although it is slightly more difficult to portray
an intelligent person if you are not actually smart, but the World Wide Web is
full of suckers and without them the liars would have a limited playground. I
am an unofficial member of a very small group; I may even be the only member as
far as I know because I do not personally know another person that feels the
same way I do about the age of technology. “I guess it is because I do not network, but then if I did I would be a
bigot and a gossiper just like everyone else.” Well I am neither and I do not
feel the need to invite people I do not know into my home. Our homes use to be
our safe havens, now in this age of technology they have become our prisons.
Children never play outside anymore and it is not because it is any more
dangerous for them to be outside, their parents have already posted everything
on the internet that you would ever want to know about the family imprisoned
inside; the children are just becoming good little Romans just like their
parents.
I am not looking to become
the next big VIRAL thing, I am just
a normal guy that wants to live and enjoy his life without intrusion; and
besides most people do not even know what the word viral even means. Viral by
definition is relating to or caused by a virus, (for example a viral infection).
Little Billy crashing his bicycle into his father’s 100K sports car and breaking
his leg may be funny if you are a sick and twisted individual and since little
Billy’s bad cycling adventures has over a million hits that means there are a
great deal of sick individuals out there passing little Billy’s broken leg video
around like a viral infection. So the terminology “viral” actually does fit and
so does the point I am making with fictional little Billy and his broken leg;
99.9% of everything you see passed around on the internet is a virus that is
eating at your heart your mind and your very soul and you would be much happier
and healthier if you would just walk away from the electronics and go see what
life is really all about.
Where are the Romans now? Do
not become a theoretical dead Roman. Go tell your loved ones that you love them,
in person if possible and greet them with a big hug, if the distance is too
great to travel to get to a loved one, then call it is more meaningful than a
text. Live your life like you want to be loved every second of every day,
because before you know it your life will be over and who knows what will be
posted about you on the internet when that day
arrives.