No chips for you!
:)
Posted on 05/21/2018 9:40:25 AM PDT by Maudeen
Hey How many here on FR find it hard to even pull away from ‘this site’.....LOLOL....I finally found an easy escape for me. But it’s easy to stay tuned in here.
....”My childhood was magnificent in all its stinky, bloody, bruised and sunburned glory”.....
ROTFLOL!
They way they do this (and I have been susceptible to this, so I don’t have any room to criticize) is they will have a thing.
This thing will be presented to you with a great selling point like “You won’t need a wallet, purse, car keys, house keys, anything. You won’t have to remember passwords, you won’t have to stand in line for this or that, it will be more secure, your personal data won’t get stolen...”
A good example in practice of this is the push to get an electric toll pass device. How good is that? (I admit that I love them when I travel) You don’t have to wait in long lines of people jockeying for position at a booth, slowing down to a dead stop, finding money (discovering you don’t have enough, or are in the exact change only lane, etc.)
You can just stay in the fast lane and zoom on by and not worry about ANY of that.
And later, when enough people have bought in...they make it somewhat of a crime NOT to use a toll device. They punish you. They have fewer and fewer lanes for real money, so you have to wait in longer lines.
And then at some point, they simply assume you are avoiding the toll device because you DO have something you are trying to hide. And, in the parlance of one of the old Chinese curses (”May you attract the attention of the government”) you DO attract their attention.
It is insidious. And destructive.
I am not a Luddite by any means. But I regret having gone so whole-hog in on this without thinking of the downside.
Not that I wouldn’t have still advocated those things...I just didn’t think of them.
Sigh. A regret.
Exactly...but I do have times where I explicitly am not tied in. You know...
Really, caww, I’m serious! :)
My childhood was like an episode of Swamp People one day and Alaskan Bush People the next. And I grew up in a suburb of Denver. The alligators were pretty small, five inch Tiger Salamanders actually, but I got my hands on all of it.
It wasn’t just a high-res pic and a list of biological facts on a smartphone.
I liked the way you put that. It kind of makes me sad...kids now have so many things planned out, they go from point A to point B to home...
It seems there is so little time for them to explore organically.
None of my appliances can be controlled remotely. Not even by me.
They read the numbers, that’s it.
It does seem like that. I hope it just seems that way from our vantage point and isn't really that sterile. But I don't know, it seems as if even their outdoor adventures are highly controlled now.
I would have loved the access to all the detailed information about the world available today. But, like you, I fear my fascination would have turned to the technology instead of the world it was describing.
How did you come out alive!
Sure,after I’m dead.
I loved my childhood.....even more with the way kids are do nothing kids these days. I fell out of trees, bumps and bruises from roller skating, getting yelled at for climbing in a coal shoot or walking though someones property to reach the hill summit for the days cook out, and the laughter when the guys pee’d on the fire to make sure it was out! HAHAHA!!
Oh such ventures! What a life it was!
Heh, it’s a real wonder. I sure felt alive though.
I recall always straining against the limits my parents put on me yet they were nothing compared to the constraints parents put on their kids now.
I feel exactly the same way.
Well, we were more at risk for losing our lives climbing into a coal chute, but not as likely to be murdered by our classmates.
Sadly for kids today.
I couldn’t be more in agreement. And I would have been fascinated, no doubt.
LOL! Sorry, I was just putting my answer at the end of the thread, not responding to your post, apologies. My um...no meant I wouldn’t accept a chip.
No chips for you!
:)
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