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This represents the war on freedom. No, i am not a technophobe.  Quite the opposite, i thoroughly enjoy technology.  i have come up with a plethora of excuses to justify the purchase of a PS3. i am not sure how i ever watched movies before 47 inch LCD flat screens.  If your vehicle cannot drive in stealth mode i may call you stuck in the 20th century.

But cellphones are a direct attack on freedom.  i look at teenagers.  They can never escape the reach of their parents' voice.   As a teenager, once i left the house, i was out.  My parents could not get in touch with me. Out past curfew?  i knew i could not get yelled at until i made it home.  Sure kids can turn off their phone or claim the battery died but how many times can you really use that excuse?  We have given up our freedom of youthful rebellion to electronic umbilical cords.

Not only that, but our youth have become completely addicted to communicating.  Strike that, not just the youth but all of us.  We cannot have any possible down time.  No self reflection.  No creative search to fill a moment.  Useless calls and texts become a way to fill gaps in our entertainment.  No more thoughtful car rides home, there is always someone to call.  No more doodles of dreams or spontaneous poems written in the margins during boring classes or meetings.  Lap texts have left everyone looking like they are fondling themselves.  We have lost our freedom of mind to distraction.

When friends and i used to hike we knew that we had to rely on ourselves.  If we got into trouble: we got into trouble, and we were on our own.  Because of that we made sure we were as prepared as we could be with the proper supplies and never pushing the weather or our abilities too much.  Now that everyone has a cellphone the amount of "goofers" getting into situations they should never have been in in the first place has grown exponentially.  We have given up the freedom of self-sufficiency for a dependence on a technology.

i have not even gotten into the fact that every conversation can be listened to and how cellphones are also easily used as tracking devices.  What the government might do to personal freedoms is still not as troubling as what we do to undermind our own personal freedoms.  Technology should bring liberation and freedom, untether us from some previous chain, elevate us over a former obstacle.  Instead, our cellphones have become our mobile cells, entrapping us.

(It is probably giving me cancer as well, but at least i can mobiley update a facebook page)

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While you were all enjoying drinking in costume i was thinking of this week's poll. Gabba Gabba Hey!