The Digital Age

Digital inventions are marvelous but they have turned us into a sound bite nation. The news is reported in sound bites. We text in sound bites. Presidential candidates campaign in sound bites. We no longer think in sentences and we are too busy watching digital machines to read books.

It's almost impossible to turn off all the digital machines we think are essential for daily routines. Before we had them, we enjoyed nature's gift of weather reflected in the clouds, singing of birds and flowering trees and shrubs as we moved thru the day, but now we sit in closed air conditioned rooms and listen to reproductions of music or the human voice as our eyes are bombarded with thousands upon thousands of graphic images.

Our imaginations are stolen by digital machines. We are so busy watching them we no longer know how to think or question the whys and wherefores of life. We are content to let the machines tell us in sound bites what is going on in the world around us and we allow ourselves to be persuaded by forces that are not in our best interest.

Super-pacs

Since the United States Supreme Court made the decision to allow campaign super-pacs, our vote is no longer secret.

Anyone with the money to form the biggest super-pac can purchase his choice for President of the United States of America, negating the act of entering a voting booth and secretly indicating our personal choice on a ballot.

In making that decision the court awarded Money more power than Law giving lip service to our belief that we are a nation of laws


note: The Yellow Dog is back!  For a number of years this blog was in an orphaned state due to some changes on how Google handled Blogger logins.   I am really pleased that recently Google was able to restore my blog to me and so... Yellow Dog Rulz!!!