COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

I have come to the conclusion from observation and experience that we have more communication techniques than any other time in history and yet we say nothing of substance or we say nothing at all. We just spout out facts or what we think are facts. The first thing to get lost in the "Information Age" is the truth. This world has lost the art of communication. People no longer know or have the skills to just sit and talk. They are too busy feeding their addiction to the handheld computer they call a smartphone, iPhone, just ask Siri! Just like Gollum in the story Lord of the Rings when he holds the One Ring in his hands he calls it, "My Precious"... I see people do that with their smartphone.

I have seen families in restaurants eating dinner and mom and dad and kids all have their face in a smartphone or iPad. They never have a nice conversation as a family. People are so rude in checkout lines with a phone glued to their ears they do not even acknowledge the cashier person. TV screens everywhere we go do not help either. We no longer have to talk to people we just get hypnotized by the pixels on the flat screen until your number is called.

The news (if you can call it that) are very loose on checking facts so most of the time you only get a half-truth. Then the news media wants to tell you how to think about what they told you and how to feel about it also. What a shame that they think we are not intelligent enough to figure out what we think and feel for ourselves what we have just seen and heard as "news". I wonder how much time we waste on useless information... I wonder how much of our living life we loose spending time on tech gadgets?

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