I was just watching Defiance, the new WWII movie with Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell. No spoilers, but at one point in the movie, a lookout spotted the German police and I thought, "Too bad he doesn't have a cell phone so he can warn the others."
Now I'm sitting at home, wondering if I should upgrade to a 2-at-a-time Netflix package... like I don't already have enough electronic things to entertain me: two TVs, a DVR, my own DVDs, X-Box 360, PlayStation 2, computer, iPod, Tetris on my cell phone... Not to mention instant viewing from Netflix on my Roku.
I was eating Campbell's chicken noodle soup earlier today and wondered what someone who had been working in the fields all day back in the 1800s would think of my lunch. They would probably fall over from lack of nutrients.
I'm not one to be resistent to technology or dwell on the past too much. I think there is always going to be something wrong, no matter what time we live in. I just know that as I sit here... writing on my laptop, checking the Wings score, and watching the Clippers on TV... there are a lot of things I'm not appreciative of and a lot of things that I probably appreciate too much.
Now I'm sitting at home, wondering if I should upgrade to a 2-at-a-time Netflix package... like I don't already have enough electronic things to entertain me: two TVs, a DVR, my own DVDs, X-Box 360, PlayStation 2, computer, iPod, Tetris on my cell phone... Not to mention instant viewing from Netflix on my Roku.
I was eating Campbell's chicken noodle soup earlier today and wondered what someone who had been working in the fields all day back in the 1800s would think of my lunch. They would probably fall over from lack of nutrients.
I'm not one to be resistent to technology or dwell on the past too much. I think there is always going to be something wrong, no matter what time we live in. I just know that as I sit here... writing on my laptop, checking the Wings score, and watching the Clippers on TV... there are a lot of things I'm not appreciative of and a lot of things that I probably appreciate too much.
As you know, I spend a lot of time thinking about past times (as opposed to pastimes), and am in awe of those olden folks: I don't think I could get along without central heating and indoor plumbing. Especially the indoor plumbing, now that I have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of every night. The idea of using a chamber pot is even MORE disgusting!
ReplyDeleteYes, while sometimes I think it would be fun to go back in time or experience another era, it would be really really hard!
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