This here is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
When I go on my daily walks, one of the perks is talking with neighbors I routinely see. We talk. We look each other in the eyes. This is interpersonal communication. What today's generation calls "talking" is staring and inputting into a small hand held computer. If it were all left up to me, We would go back to rotary phones, 3 major TV networks, no internet, everything closed on Sundays, 45's, LP's, cassette tapes, Walkmans. We would buy the newspaper everyday and we would have each other to talk to without a machine to distract us. Thank you, Bret.
I agree wholeheartedly, but: when I saw the signs about killing conversation and a phone screen with the silenced audio symbol, my first reaction was the reminder before a set begins at my favorite jazz venue (Green Mill, Chicago) to be quiet.
There’s something magical about being in an audience absorbing non-verbal expression. Unless, of course, someone is singing.
Oh, god, I am afraid this is all too true. I see it over and over, again. Mothers with toddlers at their side virtually screaming for attention, left to their own devices while mothers are hooked on their cells. People sitting together in restaurants ignoring one another in favor of their cells. It is one of the great tragedies of our age, and there are plenty of stats to verify it is also the dumbing down of our age.
As with so many of your observations, point well taken and needing to be illuminated.
This here is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
When I go on my daily walks, one of the perks is talking with neighbors I routinely see. We talk. We look each other in the eyes. This is interpersonal communication. What today's generation calls "talking" is staring and inputting into a small hand held computer. If it were all left up to me, We would go back to rotary phones, 3 major TV networks, no internet, everything closed on Sundays, 45's, LP's, cassette tapes, Walkmans. We would buy the newspaper everyday and we would have each other to talk to without a machine to distract us. Thank you, Bret.
I agree wholeheartedly, but: when I saw the signs about killing conversation and a phone screen with the silenced audio symbol, my first reaction was the reminder before a set begins at my favorite jazz venue (Green Mill, Chicago) to be quiet.
There’s something magical about being in an audience absorbing non-verbal expression. Unless, of course, someone is singing.
Oh, god, I am afraid this is all too true. I see it over and over, again. Mothers with toddlers at their side virtually screaming for attention, left to their own devices while mothers are hooked on their cells. People sitting together in restaurants ignoring one another in favor of their cells. It is one of the great tragedies of our age, and there are plenty of stats to verify it is also the dumbing down of our age.
As with so many of your observations, point well taken and needing to be illuminated.
Very nice piece. Love that you make your point and get out. That actually has more lasting power than overpowering with more text.
And thank you for making so much sense. The world needs way more of that these days.
You nailed it brother. Nuff said.