Even down here in the bucolic nettle fields of the pastoral South End, our laid back, porch-rocking, garden hoeing pace is definitely picking up speed.\u00a0 More and more satellites are whizzing through all that space junk overhead to bring us faster weather reports, more TV channels, instant text messaging and close-up photos of the rocker on the porch from Google Earth we don\u2019t have so much time to sit in anymore.\u00a0 Our attention spans now aren\u2019t long enough to make it through the Stanwoodopolis Weekly Gazette so we check Yahoo headlines on the computer that rockets in on DSL.\u00a0 If you\u2019re younger than 30, you never looked at a newspaper in your whole life.\u00a0 Why bother, you can get the only news you\u2019re really interested in on Facebook, what your \u2018friends\u2019 are doing, news enough, I guess, these days.<\/p>\n
Our old shack has its share of 21st century gizmoes.\u00a0 Microwave oven, digital telephone answering machine, ma\u2019s nano-pod, two computers (his and hers) and all the peripherals right down to a podcast microphone.\u00a0 We got lazerized CD players, DVD players, a remote controlled TV antenna, digital alarm clocks, electric guitars.\u00a0 We look like the Jetsons without the robot maid.\u00a0 And that\u2019s on back order from Amazon\u2026.<\/p>\n
This is all the stuff advertised as Time-Saving Devices back when.\u00a0 Help do your chores more efficiently.\u00a0 Give you leisure time galore.\u00a0 Free you to live your dream.\u00a0 Be your True Self, not a slave to the menial tasking days.\u00a0 Right\u2026
\nMaybe I\u2019m too old and too cynical.\u00a0 Maybe Facebook updating IS your true self.\u00a0 Maybe bad TV IS the dream.\u00a0 Maybe what we wanted all along was something to keep us busy, keep us constantly entertained, keep us from sitting too long on the rocker contemplating the front yard that needs mowing.\u00a0 The world is smaller and definitely accelerating.\u00a0 The question I got, rocking to an older rhythm, is what the hell was the point of saving time if everything got speeded up so fast all our free time is gone?\u00a0 Well, I could waste more time on this, but I have to hurry up and update this blogsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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