My last journal post came off sounding a little "holier than thou", however inadvertantly. Believe me, I'm not one to preach. I'm a confirmed Capitalist, and I'm as crazy about my material posessions as anyone else. I apreciate how much better our gadgets are now than they were when I was a kid. Walkmen gave way to Discmen and now to the IPod. The improvements are obvious. VCR's became DVD players and now we can get movies straight off the web. Etc..
Look. People bitch about all the money we spend on weapons and the military that we could spend on the poor and ending homelessness. It's a great point. Here's mine ...
Aren't intelect and brainpower commodities just as precious as money? We toss out a shitload of money - that's for certain. But what about the effort and the knowledge we piss away on shit our children take for granted, like video games and cellphone/television/movie hybrid toys? The IPhone: fuckin' impressive bit of technology. Really mind-boggling to me actually. I'm old enough to remember when the first rudementary cellphones were a big fucking deal...
Facinating, really. But toys don't impress me.
Look. People bitch about all the money we spend on weapons and the military that we could spend on the poor and ending homelessness. It's a great point. Here's mine ...
Aren't intelect and brainpower commodities just as precious as money? We toss out a shitload of money - that's for certain. But what about the effort and the knowledge we piss away on shit our children take for granted, like video games and cellphone/television/movie hybrid toys? The IPhone: fuckin' impressive bit of technology. Really mind-boggling to me actually. I'm old enough to remember when the first rudementary cellphones were a big fucking deal...
Facinating, really. But toys don't impress me.