What a wonderful world?

I remember when you had to get up to change the channel & drop nickels yes nickels in a pay phone if you were out of the house to make a phone call. Cigarettes were .19 cents a pack, gas was .15 a gallon. Good pay was 100$ a week l a bomb shelter because any day Cuba was supposed to be killing everyone in Florida over what I don't know. We practiced in school everyday...we were the duck and cover generation. We didn't have any metal detectors in my schools, and nobody ever got shot. Maybe it was that foot long paddle in the principals office that kept the school safe, who knows.

You could take a bath without having to answer your cell phone, you could drive without talking on the phone. Oh yeah, thats when the speed limit on the interstate was 75 miles an hour. You were actually able to go grocery shopping without having to talk on the phone. There were no computers so people wrote letters to one another.

People used to socialize at church on sundays, or at the local bowling alley or lodges and clubs. Now we socialize over the internet. With faceless humans and call the words we see flash across the screen, our friends. You can go weeks, months and years without ever leaving your house and seeing another human being. You can buy food online, clothes cigarettes, liquor, sex, whatever you want. Who needs an office, we telecommute.

So I wonder, when we get sick or when we die, who's coming to the hospital to say hi? Hmm, better have a laptop if you get sick. Maybe there will be funerals where people skype in and give condolences to the few humans you actually knew face to face. Of course as time goes on, we will probably be able to connect ourselves via a USB type hookup and won't even have to go to the Doctor.

I grew up without computers, cellphones, cable tv, music being blasted into my ears 24 hours a day and on and on. Guess what, it was a pretty cool world back then. People were thinner, because we didn't all sit on our butts all day long on the computer. Houses were cleaner and there was less violence. Which makes me wonder. Is the electronic lifestyle of non face to face communication desensitizing us so much, that we no longer see humans as people..because the people who are now real to us, have no shape or form they are just words. with an avatar?