Was Einstein Right?
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A Man With Lots On His Mind
Was Einstein Right?
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
Okay, perhaps it is natural that an aging crustacean (as in ‘Crab’!) like me should be writing a post like this…you know how we are: grumpy, bitching and moaning about this and about that. But, know what? We have never been here in this place!
This place?
This place in the chronology of humankind! This place where cell phones are accessories to killing people on our streets and highways…this place where a romantic dinner is interrupted by the musical chime-ring of the latest ‘carry along do-it-all’ world data gatherer and communication gadget that everyone just has to have – sort of like the past when we tried to keep up with the Jones or Smiths…this place where the intellectually informed folks who maybe ought to know what is happening in their country and world are not making the rounds so much…this place where the new games on these weirdly-wired gadgets show the blood and gore of our imaginary kills…
You know this place of which I speak, and, yes, technology has its upside – the dictionary is there in your pocket or your purse to check the big word someone used while trying to impart something boring and unimportant. That little gadget can allow you to really blast someone you do not like, call her/him names, make threatening and obscene remarks, and you can even do it anonymously. What a sweet deal! You can be the bully without getting punched in the nose!
Oh, there are a few who are not so addicted to this great technology of ours that they have time to see,for real, armies clashing around the world…they have time to see the ineptness of our own governments in forming goals and objectives for countering the new world of terrorists – or, should I be politically incorrect and say ‘Radical Islamic terrorists’? Well, you know of whom I speak, those creepy crawling bugs that have been around for thousands of years spewing their hatred and genocidal actions, vowing to kill all infidels and to rule the world…
Yes, those of you playing your bloody computer monster games, those terrorists are infiltrating our countries, our cities, and the minds of our youth, finding it easier and easier to corrupt and dislodge great historical principles and wisdom, ‘shredding’ documents and laws by which generic man has lived in hope and security.
We have made many blunders in our living and in our pacts with certain ideologies… We have given too much to those who would wish us harm and death — and, perhaps, taken too much. We have misread the tea-leaves of history too often. We have made noble efforts to make our country and the world a better place. Despite our blunders, we are the bold and the good of Everyman and Everywoman. Are we now to somehow prove to the world of the distressed we were frauds in our ideals?
Darned tootin! I’m talking about America and all the Freedom-Loving countries around the globe, the civilized societies of the world. the greatest nations on earth. We all thought that was the case. Do we not still?
Most citizens of suppressed countries in the world look toward we Liberty-Lovers. perhaps with envy, secretly hoping and maybe praying that they someday, with our support, monetary and otherwise, will be free to chase their dreams, live with not so much fear in their hearts.
We got to this place somehow, maybe through all the doubling, re-doubling, and outright explosion of knowledge that brought us tremendous growth in technology – and those cursed chatty cell phones…wonderful inventions but easy substitutes for our real selves. Scientific knowledge and technology are good but it seems in so many ways we are making them bad. This place in which we find ourselves can be very scary and depressing. We need government leaders of grand vision and wisdom who can ignite that greatness that I felt and saw during the greatest generation, leaders who do the peoples’ business without posturing and wavering with the tools Science and Technology have provided. We do not have to stay in this place! We need to kill the ‘terrorist bugs’ that are attempting to fulfill their ‘virginal’ quests.
We might find Einstein was partially right in his observation…but, idiots, we are not, even those using the cell phones, playing their games and forgetting how to socialize without cell phone messaging.
We are, after all, the Freedom-Loving people of the World. As our English, Jewish, and all international brethren of freedom might intone in Winston Churchill’s fashion, “Let’s show these [terrorist] buggers what we have!”
By Billy Ray Chitwood
https://www.billyraychitwood.com