(09-15-2017 10:25 AM)vandiver49 Wrote: (09-15-2017 08:45 AM)stinkfist Wrote: if the ability to communicate effectively is suppressed, then economic progress flat lines....
the internutz is simply the latest version of the "antichrist"....
the unfortunate result is why this thread was created....and the posit that it pulls out narcissism in the individual is more easily achieved...
IMO, 'smart' phones are to humanity as a pacifier to a drooling tyke....
There are portions of the 'net that work like that for some people. But like a binky, its effectiveness is quite limited. And because of the stunned interpersonal development you mentioned, their reactions to disagreements are equally child-like.
I'm watching it become more of a disease every day the sun rises....
a simple example would be as follows....
at southern miss, we have multiple crossings from dorms/parking areas to campus where the speed limit is 15 mph and there are raised/speed humps as designated crosswalks.....it is MS law to stop AND remain stopped when any person is in the cross zone....
here's where it gets stupid.....the area they walk out of is cheap arse iron wrought fenced with landscaping that potentially hides the student from view if the driver is at speed with no one crossing (meaning, the driver doesn't don't have to stop and can continue w/o braking if no one is in the walkway)....
should they make it a mandatory stop??? that would be the dippo's solution...
these dipshites never look up today.....I flat out called two little twats XACLY! that with a few choice other jingles as they turned that corner just the other day.....
we had someone run over last year b/c their pea brain was buried in their phone as they crossed....
IMO, the 'smart' phone is easily the early 21st century version of the antichrist.....it's easily become my number one pet peeve simply due to the intelligence level of the average user has fallen to levels never witnessed in my lifetime...even the D/F stoners had more sense in the '60s/70s than some of these prima donna dipshites...
it's gotten to the point where I'm amazed that some of these stupid ******* can still wipe their arse w/o an app....
'too easy' is the undoing of the soul as defined in line 1b)....
I took for granted this wouldn't happen ~20 years down the road........I was dead wrong.....