*…UNLESS THE ANSWER WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THE WIND…THAT COULD EXPLAIN WHY NOBODY HAS ANY ANSWERS ANYMORE.
(A 1 & 1/2 minute read – if you are an average reader)
Things to wonder about:
- I wonder if you did a study looking at two groups of new people…One group (‘Group One’) – If you told them nothing about the bad/unpleasant acts of man (i.e., Slavery, Invasions, Starvations…those sorts of horrible things) and you took the other group (‘Group Two’) aside and told them all about man’s past histories of man’s inhumanity to man…and then you studied these two groups and how they behaved out there in their world…which group would tend to behave better than the other? This study may be possible to be undertaken right here in the U.S. of A.
- When I go out for coffee and such, I see most of the people at the other tables staring into their phones. It does not matter if they are alone or in clusters of four – they are all looking into their phones. I guess this is a good thing, because I have read people get more information from viewing their phones than from all other screens and media. So what I am seeing in the coffee shops is more of an information gathering technique than just social maladjustment. It is good to have the people be full of information.
- Data is showing too much screen time can thin the cortex of the brains in Children…..And what does this do? It leads to troubles with maturity and lower test scores in general. Me? I was ahead of my time. I had troubles with maturity and test scores – way before there were all these screens.
- The other day I received a message telling me I have just about filled up my Cloud space…something like that. And I got to thinking there must be millions of people like me …maybe billions. sending whatever it is we Gather & Send – to the Cloud (Information – I suppose). And I worry that if these ‘Clouds’ were to get so big …like some clouds do…and they can’t hold what’s in them anymore and they burst and dump all our facts and viral digits and stupid stuff down on us like these Atmospheric Rivers are dumping water down on the Californians – then who will be able to make sense of any of it? (Not the members of ‘Group One’)…and don’t tell me the answer is Blowin’ in the wind.
A few quotes. and comments thereon
- “Most of our problems are the result of our solutions to previous problems” -Eric Sevareid (in his ‘Farewell’ speech at CBS) …Me? I think the rest of our problems are the result of our doing nothing about our problems – previous or otherwise.
- “You can’t know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you’ve been.” -Eric Sevareid, again. Mr. Sevareid most likely thought ‘Group Two’ (Mentioned in first paragraph, above) would be better off to cope with the realities)
- “Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin” -Bob Dylan, “Times They Are A-Changin’ “, Though Dylan was prescient, he did not foretell the half of it.
That’s all I can shove into the Cloud, and elsewhere, this week…with a fond “Hello” to all the ‘Panchos’ I’ve met in my life…
(P.S. We, intentionally, have left out a photo/ reel this week…to see if less screen time makes for a thicker skinned cortex’d, and less troubled, and more mature readership.)
