Kirk Carter@ Chew Bear Productions@ Copyright 2015
SMARTPHONE BLUES
As you may be staring at your Smartphone as you read this, realize the dozens of people throughout the day who simply want the opportunity to say "Hello", or introduce themselves to you? But no, you have your face dug down deep into someone else's content page.
Your little world of reading other people's content is carefully orchestrated to suck you in!
I know, because I write a lot of stuff under different pseudonyms.
I get 10 cents a click (yea, a whole 10 cents), each time you click a story or episode. There are a number of commercial websites I do this on...this is not a promotional ad, you either find them or not!
One particular site I do get's me an average of 7500 clicks, it all adds up, and yes...I thank you for reading my content...
Wasn't bragging there, but my point is either you produce content or you consume content.
The Smartphone Blues occurs like a symptom of psychosis, where one see's no margin line, you inherently feel no need to better yourself because you've managed to suck your own livelihood into the dilemma of social media...
It's sad really...when you consider that you have no original thought anymore...cause some one else is entertaining you. No wonder teacher's are scratching their heads with so few students showing any enthusiasm, no drive? With all this lost potential, our civilization will soon dissolve itself with even more haves, and a crap load of have-nots.
Let's all keep staring at the magical screen and your almost guaranteed to have nothing!
It's hard to be complacent when your allowing millions of slick content hackers (for the lack of a better phrase, "Media Whores"), who control the agenda with fancy and often times professional level post-productions.
If you think about it, what if your Smartphone died...no coming back...and as you looked over to the next person, their's died, too?
Suddenly, everyone starts to look around, perhaps at each other, starting to feel unusually uncomfortable. Talk about a dilemma, like what the f**k?
An electromagnetic flux has just occurred...
You previous readers know that I'm talking about an electromagnetic pulse, all man made, easily built, and yes...every major country has an arsenal of them ready to launch.
There's also a large move by radical groups to introduce one of these at about 20 miles above the United States...say around Kansas. The sun can also cause something like that, but not quite so concentrated, precise, and absolute in it's effectiveness.
So they manage to set one off, what would you see, feel?
Probably see a quick pulse of light in the sky, maybe a delayed boom blast, nothing major.
It will feel like a spark, a quick shock, like when you cross an office room with thick carpet and touch the button to get on an elevator...you know that uncomfortable little zap you get when you discharge the body of your built up electrons you've accumulated?
Only difference is, all the lights would go out, the elevator would cease to work, any computer controlling anything (water, sewage, tv, radio, cell towers, gas pumps, automobiles made after 1979), and yes your Smartphone, would be off line for perhaps a year or so...
By the time all the chaos clears from people not being able to access their funds, and assuming you survive all the people going ballistic trying to find food (no trucks remember), then it will be a learning experience one will never forget. This by the way, is not speculative make-believe, it's only a matter of time before it occurs...
Point being...get into the habit of making yourself available for conversation, it's habit forming!
Be open-minded enough that you genuinely accept the fact, that despite your best intentions, your not living in a closed closet or box...we share this planet, get over it!
Try to get into the habit of saying "Good Morning" to total strangers, or just get the first shot off and kill them, somebodies got eat!
In my case, I'll orchestrate the idle chit-chat for a moment or two...depending on the response...well, it will have to be situational, depending on the circumstance, I reserve comment here...do I blast them and take the food, or do we share...like I said, very situational!
Who know, these long lost social skills actually might come in handy when the Smartphone doesn't?
Kirk Carter
Soho, New York
