I Hope This Helps

The iphone is being advertised an awful lot. I don't own a cellphone because I don't like them. The iphone freaks me out. My stance on cell phones is this: you pay money so that you have no solitude. You're never alone when you have a cell phone, which I'm sure is a comfort to some but not to me, since I don't substitute comm-tech for actual human interaction. Cybernetics, as you can guess from previous posts, freak me out. The concept freaks me out. I'm not entirely comfortable relying on a car for transport, but I deal with it. The iphone, by design, appears to demand human manipulation to a greater extent than any other device of its kind. Now, I made a post before about the marketing of products and how most advertising's only real point is to make want things you don't need. As electronics become more and more personalized to their user, and these devices become more and more complex (the iphone knows how you are holding it) how long do you thi...

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - - George Orwell "I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." -- Steve Martin I don't think it's outrageous to say that not everyone is cut out to be a soldier. In much the same sense, not everyone is cut out to be a prostitute. Killers and whores, regardless of gender, have many, many things in common in western/westernized culture. A soldier in the United States is not free. There are contracts that are signed, papers are pushed and rights are relinquished. It's perhaps true that many members of many militaries come to accept that in their sacrifice of certain safeties and comforts comes a steady paycheck and more often a sense of purpose. I dare say many people these days lack anything that even looks good near a sense of purpose. A prostitute is much the same. The contract is more a s...