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I have an Amazon Prime membership. I’m trying to take full advantage of it. I also have a Kindle, which I find difficult to read from. Truth be told, I wonder how useful any of this stuff is. And how much Amazon has stored about me, my life, values, tastes, and preferences. I have a paranoid fear that Jeff Bezos wants to rule the World. And if i don’t fit in, Bezos will have me killed, if I’m not dead after a suitable time interval. All because I buy stuff from Amazon, but not everything I want or need.
Call me crazy. But I’m like an addict at this point. Anybody else want out of the digital world? I realize now it is an “all or none” proposition. The name is control. Where can we “dropouts” go to survive, even thrive, without making these diabolical bargains?
Dispatches From Dystopia 
There is a small place, shown on the netflix series, “Afflicted.” There is a town built around sensitive equipment so only lower tech items will work. Many people who are sensitive moved there as a result, where the level of technology is far lower deliberately. Otherwise? I’m not sure. i think we took the “mark of the beast,” already. i think we have been spied on for decades, on par with the movie, “Sliver.” We are so sick, so addicted, so needing of real connection that we find bits wherever we can. It means we create blogs, friendships from a distance, recreating the letter writing and diary keeping of centuries past. i think we have conflated connection with connected to such extent there is no going back. Unless your people are going too. You know? i often fantasize about living on an island alone with Master. Truthfully, though, there are people i got incredibly close to from afar.
That was very well stated, reflecting my thoughts precisely.
There are many who have unplugged and done so successfully. It is possible to return to the land and simpler ways of living. It just takes a dedication to not giving in to the temptation of convenience. No more internet, netflix, television, phone. Go solar so all electricity is off grid. Shop local and farm what you can. Go to a communal type of living where connections with others are “real” and people assist one another in survival. We have gone so far from what we’re meant to live like that we’re isolated and have little value for actual meaningful lives. It’s hard to go back and “give up” all the technology we have today.
Yes. I agree it can be done. Thinking it has to be done in one sweeping stroke is perhaps naïve.
Perhaps. 🙂 Naive sounds good right about now…
I love naïve. It is an American specialty. Our great strength and great weakness, simultaneously.
i agree. 🙂 We’re prudish to a point of ridiculousness while being the most sexualized society in the world. Fun, eh?
i’m exhausted and ready to just curl up with a coloring book and be little. Eat ice cream while watching my little movies. The world just seems too big right now… yet i can’t relax into my safe zone and do what makes me able to cope when life gets hard. i’m just tired…..
I understand completely. Rest as best you can. Take care, my Angel. You are a great source of wisdom for me.
♥ i’m doing my best.
I’m doing cartoon therapy right now. Popeye
i’m waiting for the new episode of Worst Cooks in America tonight. The history channel is on in the background as two guys wander across America buying odds and ends of antiques. Ruffi is at my feet sleeping. All is quiet at the moment.
Interesting POV. I personally don’t care what they know about me. I’m not that interesting and have nothing to hide 😜. Is that sad? I do appreciate their innovation and nothing beats their shipping times. I don’t want to imagine modern life without them.
“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” What Beezos is up to can be likened to boiling a frog.