![]() ![]() This is the true judgment-free zone, and all that we need is an Off Switch. Leave the diets and exercise to everyone else. This is a place where you can come, and I will reliably tell you how to solve problems in your life without changing anything you do. You could’ve guessed I would say that, if you have read me before. When was the last time you were barely listening to somebody while you were on the phone with them, because you were scrolling through your phone during the conversation?Īnyway it’s very clear what the problem is here. ![]() When was the last time you were on the phone with somebody and you suspected they were scrolling through their phone during the conversation? Plus, I have been known to combine these nonstop activities, and undoubtedly so have many of you, so that you can be watching your 303rd episode of The Whatever Show, while you’re texting nonstop on the phone or cruising Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter nonstop. I’ve done the same thing when I watch shows on Netflix, where you don’t even have to press the On button to watch the next episode, thus eliminating that single volitional act, that tiny moment when you have a choice about watching another episode or returning to your life. I cannot be trusted with a TV in my room. I watched the whole entire second episode, half-asleep and half awake, so that not only am I tired today, I didn’t even see the stupid show. I pressed the On button and started watching. Last night, I was watching a new television show, and as soon as it finished, a commercial came on saying that I could get the second episode right away.īut it was already midnight, and I should have been asleep by eleven. And we started watching TV all the time, one show after the other, all the time, twenty-four seven, nonstop. You have to put up signs in hallways so that they won’t use the phone, and you have to designate special railroad cars so they won’t use the phone, and you have to pass laws so they won’t use the phone while they’re driving, because everybody uses the phone all the time, twenty-four seven, nonstop.ĭo you remember when you used to have a wait a week for your favorite show to come on? The commercials called it “appointment television” and they encouraged you to “make an appointment” with your television to see your show.īetween you and me, it wasn’t that hard an appointment to get.īut to stay on point, somewhere along the line, the appointment book got thrown out the window. In fact, you have to beg them not to use the phone. Not necessarily to mourn, but to consider how times have changed.īecause these days, you have to encourage people not to use the telephone. If you do, you may also recall that the product they were advertising was a telephone.īecause back in the day, people needed to be encouraged to use the phone. Do you remember a commercial that used to say, “Reach out and touch someone?”
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