I’m writing this post without the benefit of technology and it serves as a startling reminder of how dependent I’ve become on tech. For example, last night at 2 AM when I was trying to sleep but had this old memory stuck in my head, I popped open my commlink (read: cellphone) and downloaded an app to allow me to access my ‘capstone’ server and access the file. Then I routed that file through my phone to play on my TV. Once upon a time I would’ve gone downstairs and looked through a cabinet for the file, but this was techy and thus a lot better. Also, It was 2 AM and I was simultaneously lazy, tired, unable to sleep, and too stubborn to take the tech free approach to the problem. This is how I’ve come to live.
Technology is just another tool that allows the world to see the worst version of ourselves. I personally expose my innards on a daily basis in ten minute doses in a way that is far less intimate than the notebooks I used to keep, but at the same time is far more accountable. We are all apparently more accountable as a species now. When my mother, who is presently languishing half a continent away, calls me I can’t call and say ‘sorry I wasn’t home’ because there is no home phone. If I cannot talk I am normally expected to be able to text and if I cannot text, there is a nifty feature that allows me to vocalize a text into the phone to at least relay the message that texting isn’t an option. I am dependent on that tech and often wonder if I could function without these electricity driven devices. Remember, I’m the guy who used to watch at least two hours of TV everyday. Imagine what dreams could come in that time…
When I started weaning myself off of cable it was more about money than the need to stop filling my head with junk and smut. Now the need and value of the act is shifting as a direct result of watching how dependent I am on my daily fixes and routines. I need to learn to be tech independent.
I need to do it before the zombies get here…
Some Thoughts:
- Obviously I found my way online.
- Now that I’m here I plan to research this Texas shooting and do so very thoroughly. Something feels wrong about the whole thing. One passage from an article states that “Gunfire reverberated around the complex, from the two gunmen, the armed officer and a nearby SWAT team — four of whom fired high-powered rifles, according to a source familiar with the officers involved.” Now that article goes on to promote a single police officer armed with a .45 as killing both of the armored assailants. I’m going on to call bullshit. Something feels staged…
- If all the world is a stage then 1825 was the opening act for a much later cold war. This is year that the Russian/Canadian boundary was established and was also the year John Q. Adams took office as the sixth president and tried to make his mark as someone beginning a global agenda.