The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #2526739
Posted By: Little Hawk
29-Dec-08 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Amos, the computer eats up enough of my life already. If I could take it wherever I went, it would soon eat up much of the rest of my life. Same goes for the telephone. And the radio. And the TV.
You see, I value and indeed treasure the fact that when I go out of the house and when I am in my car or walking down the street or sitting beside a lake, I am totally free of all of the above gizmos.
It is not that I desire to be a Luddite or to live in a primitive fashion. It is that I desire to be free in my own mind. Free to think about nothing if I choose. Free to daydream or admire the real world. Free to be me, in peace, without outside broadcast interference upon my mind. I wish in that sense to live as people have lived for nigh on 100,000 years on this planet. I do not wish to avoid new technology, Amos, I merely wish to control when and how it has ACCESS to ME.
I feel the same about door to door salesmen and telemarketers. ;-) Can you relate to that?