Back in the 1980’s I called beepers “20th century ball and chain.”
I took outlook work email and schedule off my Mytouch a couple of months ago. It really freed up my private time.
Yep, beeper was an electric leash. Cell phone is an electric shackles.
I love modern technology but there is very much I detest about modern life. The grass is greener, but I wish I lived as an adult in the 50s and 60s instead of being born in the late 50s and raised in the 60s.
I don’t find much to cherish in modern US life. Maybe this is just because I am an old fart of 52 years but I think we have less liberty, more regulation, more stupidity, a diminishing moral and social culture. Don’t get me started. All of this is the reason I can’t be truly “happy” despite my personal circumstances being so good. I should be happy, but modern life and the direction it is going make me glum.
It is not fair. With my income and lifestyle, by all rights I should be a very happy man. Seeing what is coming for future generations of Americans - the government intrusion, the fracturing of family, church, and neighborhood, the heavy taxation of labor, the decaying morals, dumbing down, everybody does it.
I’m not a happy man. I should be.