What's on everybody's mind and why aren't I interested in it?
I'm sure there is a website out there right now that has embedded the word "ipad" secretly hidden in it's code somewhere that is attempting to gain higher search engine result listings on Google and yahoo and Bing. the website itself will probably be nothing but cheap and obnoxious advertising for Apple products or products that suck off of Apple, such as the bluetooth market, or the iphone cover market. there are some covers out there more expensive than an Iphone itself!! but the biggest leach seams to be At&t. who has taken advantage of their sole service company deal for the iphone, and frustrated millions. or so I hear because I'm with Verizon. and really I'm not to surprised one way or the other with the service I get from them. they provide their mega-lifestyle-service for whatever fad or gadget they are tricking us into thinking we need.
I want to know more precisely what our actual increase in productivity is using the newest technology. i know in farming, technology has practically made us who the world is today. without the increased productivity in farming and agriculture, we couldn't FEED this many people, period. end of discussion. now you may argue whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm just analyzing technology and productivity here. and in farming, a gas powered tractor is much more efficient than a horse. by a long shot.
But does an Ipad make you THAT much more productive than your current laptop? Will cloud computing be the future path of applications and all those USB and Ethernet wires you have behind your desk be a thing of the past? For the past couple months it's been All Apple, all the time. Is there ANY part of our culture it doesn't have a hand in? is it a coincidence that Steve Jobs is looked at from the cult leader angle, much more than Bill Gates or Donald Trump even? it's a fact that there is a cult around Steve Jobs. people wait in lines on concrete for DAYS to buy the next gadget that Steve Jobs tells them they need. and i know this perspective is nothing new. because if apple's products actually make people BE more productive than non-apple product using people, they've got an obvious point. but from my perspective (I own NO apple products myself) it seems that apple is very good at making people FEEL more productive. they LOVE their apple products. so are they actually more productive or just feel like they are? and really, does it matter? because every other big player in our culture from google, to facebook, to activision-blizzard (they make guitar hero, world of warcraft, and Call of Duty) are either working with apple or competing against them. the ipod started it, then the iphone dug them in. now they're going after the laptop computer market and the next target is the TV market. yes. iTV is coming.
Ugh, I'm so sick of it. I can't even get high speed internet service where I live. I can't help but ask: Is life passing me by? If I don't sign on to the apple technology train now, will I find myself lost and helpless in 20 years? I'm afraid I won't be able to go grocery shopping in the future without first pre-sending my grocery list to the store via a super app. that has all my products pre-shopped for me. wait. with amazon-grocery.com why would I even need to leave the house at all? I can just receive all the culture that they feed me through my internet/phone/tv connection. and just go back and forth to work. is that what kind of society we want? I know several people right now that their whole lives are home/work/store. and ALL of the culture they experience is given to them through the TV or Internet. period.
I don't give a fuck about Tiger Woods. I don't care about Sandra Bullock and her cheating husband Jesse James. I don't care about American Idol, or the Biggest Loser. I am slightly interested in Anna Paquin announcing she is bisexual. Because why do celebrities tell the world these things? Personally, I think she was playing an April Fool's joke on everybody.
Either way, what more is out there besides Pop culture and gossip? Is that ALL our culture has to offer? nothing of substance, just enticements to consume more?
You tell me. How much is technology, apple, or television embedded in your life? how do you find the music you listen too, and the tv you watch? is it given to you or do you actively seek it out? Are you an active participant in your culture or do you just consume whatever stuff they put in front of you?
you're so full of it. if I CHOOSE to use apple products, how are they controlling me?
ReplyDeleteyou need to get a life. Apple makes life more fun.
I've got an idea. why don't you go fuck yourself! then maybe you'd have something better to say than just bashing peoples lifestyle choices.
ReplyDeleteyou're a drag.
hmmm. good point. I think that apple DOES make good products (I own everything but an ipad). but I also can detach my life from their "orb" so to speak.
ReplyDeleteI think it's all up to the individual.
look dude. our society is about one thing. making money. everything outside or inside of that sphere is only meaningful in terms of how it can help to make money.
ReplyDeletetiger woods family sex scandal was only important because it was revealed that he lead a lifestyle outside of what his endorsers where selling in their products. be it a car or a watch or Gatorade. they are also selling American wholesomeness. and that doesn't go over so well when you're texting DD size Pornstars about fucking her ass. haha. gotta love this country. we are soooo hypocritical.
I Love these inane comments left in response to your freeform meanderings. "why don't you go fuck yourself!" That's original! It's probably from some guy who just found out his dick can reach his asshole. Or, "our society is about one thing. making money." Sorry, if that were the case, we'd all be counterfeiters. Money is merely a commodity chosen as a medium of exchange, not of any measure of value. And all rational human action is the exchange of one condition for another. "Without calculation, economic activity is impossible."Mises. Socialism then is neither economic activity, nor rational. Keep Jobs free, and me free to either buy or ignore. Capitalism is good.
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