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01/29/2022

Communication

I touched on email and text in the last paragraph. Back in the stone age, you had to throw a rock to get someone's attention. Advancements when we learned to ride horses and write, we could use a courier and get a message to someone in a couple months, maybe even hear back before the season changed. I still remember saving my Bazooka gum wrappers, stamping and addressing an envelope to some po box somewhere then mailing them in to get the free secret decoder ring in six to eight weeks for a small handling charge. I think I remember stamps being 10 cents then. You gotta love capitalism. That tactic still gets people today with the tv ads. Get a second set for an additional handling fee of $19.95, which of course is nonrefundable once the item arrives and is way different then the ad claimed. PT Barnum was a genius with his comment” a sucker born every minute”. This is how we all learn though. I did it, you did it or will do it and your kids will do it. It’s a rite of passage, I think. But now, we don’t even need infomercials. We can get that instant gratification of getting swindled through e-mail and text messages that ask for our “personal information”. Let’s be real though, it’s not personal anymore. It’s just a matter of how many different websites you need to go to, to find what you need, some of them on the dark web even. You can send identical copies of a letter to thousands if not millions of people in an instant if you know their “address” or user name on a social media site. You don’t even have to have a phone line connected to the device you are communicating with; it just goes through the air wirelessly, on some radio wave. For communication I think that it's nice we can talk with family and distant relatives but we also get overloaded with the kind of communication that we really don’t need. We call it spam but spam is relative because some people want that newsletter and others don’t want it. I guess nobody really wants the millions of dollars that some prince has waiting for us to collect though, that one should just be rejected by the server as soon as it is sent. Maybe someday.

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