Life ..... Unplugged

Do you think its possible? Is it possible to live a life unplugged from others, from technology, from the daily reminders and distractions of work, life, and people in general? Can you see a few days when you aren't tethered to laptop, or cell phone? I can't really stand on my soapbox and condemn others for their adherence to techie devices. I'm a total sellout. I have an ipod, a cell phone and three computers. Is there a recovery group for this type of thing?

And yet, I love being connected to my family and friends. And in today's society how else can you stay connected other than through some sort of electronic communication? Email has taken over from letters; texting has replaced talking; even cell phones have a mix of both communications so that you never have to write or talk in order be connected to those you know and love. Scary, huh?

Even as I sit here and mull over my next sentence I realize that I ma throwing my thoughts and issues out the great expanse of the Internet....Cyberworld. Damn. I have totally caught the bug. Why have actual communication and sharing of ideas and thoughts when you can get online and vent to the world. More to the point, why not log on and voice your opinion without the complication of having to listen to the backlash of those who would chose to look down upon your ideas. Deep man. Deep.

I'm not sure whether I'm going for indignant or if I'm just coming off as hypocritical. I'm probably somewhere in between. I'm never just one thing or the other...I'm to lazy for that. I would rather point out what is wrong with life, society, people and wave my little fists of fury at it all.....then quietly sulk off and play with my toys. My electronic toys. Hello iPod. I suppose its easier to play the fence than to actually admit to myself that I am a whore to the electronic age, and I can't live without an email, a post, or a text a day. I feel lonely, cut-off and maybe a little lost without my computer or other electric leash.

At least I'm not writing in acronyms. LOL. GAHHHHHH!!!!

Nevermind. I tried ok?

Don't judge me....you're the one reading this ONLINE...on a computer....or for some of you even a fucking iPHONE.

That's just crazy talk!

Paris Hilton endorsing a presidential candidate? That's Mmmmmmmadness, I tell you, just plain crazy! Has the world gone mad???? Have I fallen in some kind of coma and the world has turned into my worst nightmare....Paris Hilton as Presidential nominee.....NNNNooooooo, Pull the plug, PULL THE PLUG!!!

Deep breath. Just a crazy rant, its ok. I'm good.

I'll just watch some T.V , maybe catch up with some Olympics.

*- Cue in CNN showing Paris Hilton and her ridiculous (and very real) political ad. -*

And.I.must.scream.

Words fail me at this point. I mean really folks, what the fuck was that blond-haired, life-sized preying mantis doing getting anywhere near the political arena. She has the I.Q of a peanut, ok, ok, a walnut, and her fame and current fortune (not counting the family money) is based on fake five dollar hair extensions, Champagne in a can, dog accessories. - You cannot make this shit up! - She will forever been know by that classic, and oh-so-intelligent catch phrase: "That's Hot". W.T.F. people????? She has infiltrated every little possible pop culture arena; she sings, she models, she acts, and now apparently someone taught her to talk. That person should be stoned, and not in a good way!

You cannot pick up a magazine with out seeing her picture or hearing about something retarded she said. But that was ok, because I still had the intelligent media as a Paris free oasis, where life made sense again. No. The dream is over. She has found my little area of common sense, and world affairs, and now I'm alone. -- Too dramatic?--

Ok. Ok. So its not that dramatic. But when I turn on CNN and I listen to them drone on and on about Pairs' little political statement, I cringe. Why do we insist on giving this walking sticking insect air time? By doing so we perpetuate the idea that we give two shits about what she has to say. WE.DO.NOT. And even if there was any meaningful point to her little swimming suit clad political tirade - She didn't write, she memorized it and said her lines like a good little blow up doll.-

Madness I tell you. Madness.

Le sigh.

The Past is part of the Future.

-- " Negligence of its regulations, inattention to its recommendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequences--universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and private faith, loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations, and at length in discontents, animosities, combinations , partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. " -- Excerpt of John Adams Inaugural Speech March 4. 1797

I do not often have too much to say about current affairs. This is not because I do not care, or I do not stay in touch with what is happening. But I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by the ridiculous actions, responses, and decisions of many politicians.
I was reading a book about John Adams and I read his Inaugural Speech. The excerpt I have included seemed to have a present day poignancy; it touch me, and I hope it can touch you.