Guess what..I just discovered whats wrong with the system!! - lazy pricks
Stand-Alone Dreamer | 13 August 2004, 7:01amThese days I drive my Esteem from home to work (and back)everyday, and there is a process as to how I do this. When get into the parking lot I make sure that I always park at the right end. You know why? Because thats where the entrances for the escalators are. Unsurprisingly everytime I get in at 11'O clock in the morning (early by my standards), I find that the right end of the parking lot is absolutely full..So I roam around and reach the next parking floor to see that the right end is full again..all this with the left side completely empty.
After my routine round trips across all the three parking floors; I end up parking at the left end, cursing the whole world for their laziness, and walk across to the escalator at the other end. I can recall a few days when they would find the escalator not moving, and at this there would be a collective sigh. Some punk kid prevented their and my lazy asses from riding the escalator. I guess we'll all have to just take the stairs.
I remember being taken aback, reading some stories written by a writer by the name of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His stories were satirical, funny, had some attitude, and they all spoke very loudly about his opinion about advancement and discovery. Underneath these clever stories would be a foreboding tone that all this advancement, technology, and discovery, is the apocalypse of man kind.
I couldn't agree more. I along with several other people who I simply see everyday are living proof of this. People wonder why the obesity rate has risen, so much so that they call it an epidemic, but what do they expect when our society discovers all these new things to cradle us so that we don't have to put as much effort into it? So it makes it easier.
Our society has become so goddamn lazy and dependent on these new "advancements" that it has come to us mooching off the handicapped. What do I mean? I see this constantly at a nearby shopping center. There are several sections of the path that are cut off and separated by doors. There is nothing obscure about these doors you push and pull them to open them, however to the far right of every one of these entrances is a big silver button, with blue illustration of a stick figure in a wheel chair. 98% of the people I see pass through these entrances and when the door shows any signs of closing, they press the button again so that it quickly opens again, and they carry their stuff through, no fuss, no muss.
Remember when you were able to throw garbage out? Remember how easy that used to be? You just throw it out and that's all you have to do. Not anymore. If you have the fortune of eating at a newly opened food court one of these days, at the end of your meal start prioritizing. Separate your regular garbage, then cans, then glass, then paper, and then you're all set. Otherwise you will end up bringing all this stuff mixed up to not one, not two, not three, but four different garbage cans, with big signs on them. And then you have to do this all while you're there because you wouldn't dare throw all that out in the regular garbage bin with all those people looking.....well at least throwing out trash has us put some effort into it, that gets us moving. Taking out the trash takes some effort now.
What about snail mail? Remember the joy of writing a letter? You'd fold it up three separate ways, sock it in an envelope, and plunk a stamp on there. You would leave your domain and walk to a mail box, drop it in and leave with a smile on your face anticipating it's arrival wherever it may be going. Now we have e-mail. Unbelievably convenient, but if you ask me the invention that was discovered to bring the world together is simply keeping the world apart. You would think the populace would take advantage of such a device to keep in touch with one another but instead since it is so convenient and at your disposal, some people find themselves saying....."oh I can just as easily send this to him tomorrow." Or don't you love the people who don't even want to go through the effort of writing you an e-mail, they simply send you a forward of some lame joke, or self healing jargon to let you know that they still think of you, or you inexplicably are somehow still on their mailing list. It's not bringing the world together. How do I know? I'm sitting here right now talking to no one, so that I can type this for you to read.
And of course the one discovery, advancement, that should be completely outlawed in my opinion is the cell phone. I do own a cell phone, but I hope I never had one, because frankly I'm reachable enough as it is, and I don't want to be out and about and have someone calling me, "sorry I'm on my time." Cell phones not only have contributed to rudeness among person to person interaction, (e.g. you're out with someone having a conversation, their phone rings and they say "excuse me," answer it and start chatting away) they also have made you think twice about wondering if someone is insane or not. Whenever you see someone talking to themselves now you don't assume they are crazy, you look for the little ear piece first. One thing cell phones have done so horridly well is make people impatient. They can't wait to get home and have a conversation, they have to have it right then and there on the bus, for 5-10 minutes your let in on details of a persons life that you really don't care to know, but people will always feel free to expose you to it.
Now, I am not martyr, I am guilty of not wanting to walk certain places, and taking easy cliques that I am surrounded by, it's inevitable, our society is grounded on it.
But in all sincerity, and if that sort of money ever came to me I'd definitely buy a farm-house, and enjoy my stay over there; and instead of flipping a switch for a fire place to be activated, I would rather go outside, chop some wood, and bring it in to heat my wood stove.
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1. By Stupendous Man | 13 Aug 2004, 10:42am
man. did i miss alot of posts, or what?
2. By mls | 13 Aug 2004, 11:44am
gr8 post dude!
snail mail these days only contains love letters albeit a diff kinda love. The senders just love to remind the receiver that there is some payment due or there is a new offer with some promo literature.
we just have to live with the new inconviniences technolgy has brought forth.
3. By Stand-Alone Dreamer | 13 Aug 2004, 2:20pm
Guess you missed only a couple of posts..Anyways I wasn't prompt at posting them regularly...
and Thanks mls...
4. By Meggie | 22 Aug 2004, 8:12pm
Of cell phones a friend of mine who refuses to buy one says, "Why shud i pay for others to bother me ? " cudn agree more. And talking of emails ....degradation of the english language, with short forms, abbrvs and mo if u no wot i mean ;) :P :) Nice read :) came here from Hide n Seeks' blog
5. By tabrez | 14 Sep 2004, 7:57pm
just read your posts from the top down, your an excellant writer keep em coming !
6. By Stand-Alone Dreamer | 15 Sep 2004, 2:20pm
Thnkz tabrez...
:-D