Either we write our own history
or someone without our interests in mind
will do it for us.
"...Fire Sale!"
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"We use media to destroy cultures, but we first use media
ReplyDeleteto create a false record of what we are about to destroy."
Edmund S. Carpenter, 1972
I no longer keep my cell phone in my room when I sleep. Also, I try spend as little time in contact with it or in close proximity to it as possible. I recently heard an interview with a scientist who has studied the physiological effects of wireless devices on the human body, particularly on red blood cells, and she scared the hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone offers you a QR code to keep on your phone as some kind of ID - please, don't accept it. Not if you have a choice. It's just about the worst idea since the atom bomb.
Z
My life with iPhones has been intermittent.
ReplyDeletehad one a few years when they showed up. I never used it much so let it lapse. Later for health reasons I got one of those free Obama phones things.
This direct from da *U.S. fucking Gubbermint.
*I kept it in my hall closet to be on da safe side.
It got cut off...who knows why.
So I've had a few off and on over time.
They all more or less shut off after a bit. Bleep it.
I got around to tossing them and all of the others out.
Being an old techie I took them apart first.
I figured there was spook stuff or maybe fairies in there.
Naw just grey market and Chinese crap like they use in everything now. Including high end brand name stuff. Take ya phone apart and see.
Anyway, I kept one for if my number comes up again...911 calls for help are free on all phones. ...so keep at least one.
Also I'm old school.
If I want to watch a movie I have DVDs or Netflix. To take pictures or make videos I have my fucking camera.
To make calls...I don't as my loved ones except for my sister and old radio pals are in heaven or Milwaukee or wherever they send us.
For them dear folks I email or message on assorted platforms.
The idea of carrying all them features around. Along with all as in all your personal codes passwords the works. This in one delicate very brake-able lose-able stealable open to hacking device. ...seems odd.
Mind you when young I thought that would be cool.
However seeing it in action...no thanks.
Hell, I'd be happy with just that giant block of Bakelite plastic aka a telephone. An instamatic camera an Emerson table radio and a 12 inch black and white screen...Dumont analogue tube TV.
These seem more than useful thank you very much.
They did good service for a century or so.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Hi Anon.
ReplyDeleteWas always an Ed Carpenter fan.
Loves his static. If I was Empress of da World I would'a invite him back from heaven and give him his own reality game show. "Guess my Boyfriend". That and I'd made Harry Hay a secular Saint with a paid holiday on his birthday.
Old school is good. I prefer a phone they have to meddle with physically in order to tap it. Old fashioned tape cassettes are superior to CDs: you can record whatever the hell you want. And bakelite artifacts are collectors' items now. Analog will be back.
ReplyDeleteZ
I still have my parent's Ma bell Phone. It works too.
ReplyDeleteI have a 46-year-old transistor radio that works just swell thanks.
That and the Strontium-90 in my bones from them insane A-Bomb tests is still there and doing fine. Have a cassette recorder player too.
So I'm ready. Bring it da fuck on.