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| Plato's Purgatory... a diner doodle |
It’s an old saying, an old
challenge, and it goes like this: “Are you willing to put that in writing?”
Methinks it, like so many other old
sayings, now has a mutated meaning.
I’m beginning to wonder
about something, specifically, I’m beginning to wonder if some folks’
preference for texting rather than talking is indicative of more than just a fad of using the (relatively)
new gizmo simply because it’s there to be used.
I’m beginning to wonder if the whole texting thing hasn’t evolved into a
defacto new talisman of conformity.
The anomaly that trips my
curiosity is this: I’ve observed those who prefer text over voice would seem to
be the same set who tend to speak, when they do speak, in politically correct
but incomplete euphemisms that buzz like an out of balance transformer, the
same set most dedicated to texting those who to all visible evidence have surrendered
personal freedom as a casualty of the covert cultural warfare being waged by
the oriental influences of silence and conformity so critical to installing the
slavery of caste and class into the American culture. The prohibition is against speaking it,
writing it in a little note isn’t taboo (just bad judgment allowing for the
corporate sponsored government spying on all forms of electronic
communication).
Nothing nada zip by way of
any confirming evidence of course, just a growing question and ongoing curiosity. Oh well, time will tell if told it be. Doubt I’ll be here to see the final on this
one.
