The world turns around us in ever frustrating ways. Go into a store and though the prices are all the same for we customers our means, ways and modes are all different. The old are hunched and slow, bent over the handle of the shopping cart. The impotent are crunched and low, wearing outfits that reek of a lacking fashion sense. The virile are straight and brawny, bursting from their clothes. It's too easy to note the trends within the scatterplot—who will purchase what. The doors are guarded and the goods are watched. Employees run to and fro. Each of us wonders,
I am INCENSED by one of the proposals that have been made to treat loneliness.
Some people have suggested that lonely people spend time with robots who will be their simulated, mechanized pseudo-friends
I am older than you. I think I told you that I am 64. (The concept sickens and terrifies me because my "raison d' etre" (French for "reason for being") was my hot, flashy youth -- I was once in a rock band)
In any event, things like automated, phony friends in the form of robots are the sort of things that in my day only existed in dystopian novels.
This is why I hate the digital world. This is why I want to fly a plane over silicon valley and drop bombs. (I am just joking. Besides, I like you and I wouldn't want my personal air war to hurt you.)
I am INCENSED by one of the proposals that have been made to treat loneliness.
Some people have suggested that lonely people spend time with robots who will be their simulated, mechanized pseudo-friends
I am older than you. I think I told you that I am 64. (The concept sickens and terrifies me because my "raison d' etre" (French for "reason for being") was my hot, flashy youth -- I was once in a rock band)
In any event, things like automated, phony friends in the form of robots are the sort of things that in my day only existed in dystopian novels.
This is why I hate the digital world. This is why I want to fly a plane over silicon valley and drop bombs. (I am just joking. Besides, I like you and I wouldn't want my personal air war to hurt you.)
Loneliness is lonely but togetherness can be lonelier.