Electronics

A piece of my history journal:

.... It’s my transcendentalist side speaking when I say that I believe that all these new conveniences, bigger buildings, and nicer cars are what have given people a laid-back (far too laid-back) idea of life. They see everything that the world can do for them, and really nothing that they can do for the world. When they’re handed lemons, they turn tem into robots that make their beds and watch their children. “Work” for a lot of people is sitting in a box and pushing the buttons that people tell you to. Like a complex version of the electronic game of “Simon says…” (Which was derived from a verbal game children play). I think it is horrible with how intolerant people have become, and the way they react over a small inconvenience. I‘d speak of the huge intolerance surrounding religion, but people have been that stupid since the Crusades. I don’t think that we’re headed in an upwards direction, either. With everything that goes on, and all the new technology we have to help us “live” our lives, we’re headed in the way of Pixar’s Wall-E, in which the people live in their electronics, constantly getting fatter, because they don’t do anything for themselves. Don’t know what that is? There’s an app for that!