Whatever . . . . Let’s move on, ok?
I heard a comedian on the radio the other afternoon. He told something really funny that leads me to my conversation for today. He was talking about how technological advances have actually hurt our ability to advance ourselves. He described how at the turn of the century, simple common sense was all you needed to advance yourself.
At the turn of the century, if you had a cow and needed to get the cow to market you would start thinking. You would form a rope out of certain thin tree limbs twined together. You would chop down the tree and use the wood to make lumber to form wheels and a wagon. You could tie your mule to the wagon and drag your cow to town. Problem solved.
Then the comedian mentioned our lives today, with IPOD’s, cell phones, laptops and computers. We accumulated these items to make our lives less complicated, right? He paused for a moment and asked the audience this question.
“So, if I sent you out into the woods with only an axe . . . . How long would it be before you could send me an email?”
I laughed so hard I had to pull over or wreck.
But the point he makes is what I want to discuss. It appears in our attempt to un-complicate our lives today we have in fact put ourselves in a MORE complicated position. While trying to make things simpler we have absolutely gone the opposite direction. We have complicated our lives.
I go to a park for lunch each day. I watch as the bums wander the park and today I sort of admired them. I mean they have no complications or stress in their lives. They don’t carry cell phones or laptops so they don’t have to keep up with them. And if a catastrophe hits we would have to seek them out to remember how to survive without out electronic devises.
When they need to make a call, they collect some aluminum cans to sell for cash. They use the cash to call from a pay phone and speak to whomever they want for as long as they want. And if they are short of cash then they walk right over to the person and have a face to face conversation.
[Don’t need a whole lot of technology for that]
I also think that this misguided drive to un-complicate our lives has slipped into our thought process about the person we are . . . and the person we should be. This same technology allows us to lower our morals.
In the simple world of the bum, if he wants to see someone naked he has to actually walk up to them and ask them to undress. I firmly believe that the action of having to face someone and ask them to do something that most of us consider immoral actually keeps decent people from doing it. Yet in our complicated world we could just Google “naked” in the privacy of our own bedroom and view thousands of naked pictures. You could even see naked videos. And usually you can see naked pictures of your own friends.
I believe our new “warped” sense of morals has been caused by the complicated technology. People now find it acceptable to do this, and also people find it normal to post naked pictures of themselves on the internet too. But those same people wouldn’t have the balls to walk up to someone and ask them to strip.
I’m sure this was not the intended purpose of the internet when it was created. But what is worse is that I am finding that most people under the age of 30 find it completely acceptable to be a porn / sex freak. It’s simple and it’s been this way for their entire life, so . . . . whatever is their battle cry.
At the turn of the century, people didn’t have sex until they were married. If a “cowpoke” wanted premarital sex he went to the brothel. The women at the brothel didn’t just do that part time. Being a whore was their career path. They didn’t have future goals because most of them died before 25 years of age. Sex was their job. The women who cooked food, or worked in the actuary office didn’t do this. They waited for their man, right or wrong. It was simple to tell who was who.
[Sounds really simple to me]
Dating websites, porn websites & even sex websites are prevalent. And you can do it all without anyone easily knowing who you are or what you are doing. So because it’s incognito it’s now ok?
Someone once told me that they were good at sex, so advertising it to get more was ok. Their logic was that they were discreet, their friends won’t know and aren’t hurt, so what’s the problem. My response to this person should have been that I am good at killing people. So does that mean it’s acceptable to take human life as long as it’s done incognito and I promise that they won’t be hurting . . . for very long anyway?
I’m no angel. I’ve banged a bunch of sluts myself. But most of that was when I was immature and stupid. As I gained a sense of being I sort of drifted away from whores and sluts. I try to keep my life simple now. I have to actually be interested in a woman, spend some time talking to her, get to know a little about her before we exit to a hotel room.
The most humorous part about this is that those that believe that sex is just sex are the same ones that can’t have relationships without being jealous of their partner. (DUH!) If you live with people that believe sex is ok any time and with anyone, you can never develop a trust in anyone. Hence, you will never have a fulfilling relationship.
Oh well . . . . whatever, right?
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