UNplug

Following a Netflix suggestion from my good friend, Julie, I located the correct clicker (which sometimes is as difficult as locating my golf ball in the woods!) Too many TV clickers have we. Plus, our RI clickers don’t have the amazing voice control technology, at least ours don’t. The correct one has that colorful 3D middle button for Netflix, just like my colorful golf balls! I do feel bad that I haven’t gotten rid of Netflix along with the rest of my many mutually conservative friends, first because of O’bambam’s connection to Netflix and more recently, their sexual exploitation of young girls in the show “Cuties.” Here’s my dilemma there, how does one go about getting rid of Netflix? I don’t even know!! How’d we ever get it? “Joe?” I’m lucky I can finder the correct clicker, remember? Anywho, where am I going with this?!!… Sooooo, I turn on Netflix and I kid you not, Julie’s suggestion was playing on the screen behind all the other choices. Yikers!! Can “they,” you know, “them,” “the people inside the TV” hear us talking, too? Alexa?!!!

There it was, “The Social Dilemma.” I’m telling you, if you have a cell phone and let’s face it, who doesn’t, you’ve got to watch this show…We’ve all been played, not like a fiddle, but like the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra. It’s a million times worse than you think. The techie nerds from Silicon Valley who were interviewed on this show, those, who created this new form of communication did NOT even realize the extent of mind manipulation that would ensue. The phrase that really hit me like a punch to my gut was …”it’s a checkmate on humanity!”

My takeaway is we need to rewind the clock. Truly UNplug! We need LESS social distancing and MORE social MEDIA distancing !!!! Our humanity must survive, not so much for us baby boomers (we’re old, golden years staring us in the face, thank God our vision stinks!) but for our kids and their kids.

Yes, I know, the irony, typing on my iPhone about unplugging …..

Go hug and kiss somebody you love.

Xo, Kate 9/15/20

K.scott317@icloud.com