Just got done watchin' "Real Time: with Bill Maher". At the very end of every episode he rants about something that is needed to be ranted on. This week was about bees. The following is just what I recall of what he said.
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Einstein once said that "If the bees disappear than the humans have 4 years left to live." The reason is that most of the food we eat can only be pollinated by bees. Our attempts to do it on our own have all failed. And the Bees are going away.
The reason for the bee deaths is colony collapse disorder (CCD). We don't know why this is happening to them. What we do know is that bees don't fly near cellphones due to it screws up their internal navigation and can knock them out of the sky. Thus his main point:
Would you give up your cellphone to save the bees?
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What a great rant, in its true full glory, which I am just highlighting here. Wouldn't it be strange if we found out cellphones are causing the end of human life.
"Real Time: with Bill Maher" PODCASTS his entire HBO show plus extra internet content. This rant will be out in podcast form on or after the 28th April 2007.
The rant is also in a YouTube video box on this page.
I personally think cellphones are causing a inter-dependence in our culture that is not healthy. The EM fields and radio waves aside, 16 year 'olds' and younger should learn self reliance and personal responsibility. Maybe even some ingenuity and real world skills like fixing a flat, or having to be prepared for a worst case scenario, in isolation. I don't have a cellphone because I don't want to be reachable when I am not at home.
I realise this is an archaic way of thinking...that the real world is leaving me behind. I agree. But cellphone users don't understand that they are being desensitized to "Big Brother" over their shoulder. It may not be happening now, that we are tracking people through their cellphones, but we can do it and it will happen. Besides if all the new towers and users are causing environmental damage... well I just don't think they are a good idea on the scale we have. I do think that some people need cellphones, for big business and government officials an instant decision can be very important. But come on.
Your child does NOT need a cellphone. It is not healthy for them and may be destroying our ecosystems ability to maintain itself. The parenting fears you are using connectivity to overcome can be solved by more attentive and informative parenting in general. Without the "cellphone safety net" and illusion of security via said connectivity, your children would be a bit more contemplative in their actions. Not to mention they would pay attention to what they are doing in the space they occupy instead of walk through life with there crooked arm stuck to the side of their heads and day-dreaming about the conversation they are having with some other soul obliviously moving through their world.
It is a mental illness I tell ya!! Now it appears to also be an environmental hazard. More than that.. cellphones' EM fields could trigger a catastrophic collapse of our ecosystem and: WE ALL DIE... "and you little dog too." Wicked Witch (of the west?)
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Einstein once said that "If the bees disappear than the humans have 4 years left to live." The reason is that most of the food we eat can only be pollinated by bees. Our attempts to do it on our own have all failed. And the Bees are going away.
The reason for the bee deaths is colony collapse disorder (CCD). We don't know why this is happening to them. What we do know is that bees don't fly near cellphones due to it screws up their internal navigation and can knock them out of the sky. Thus his main point:
Would you give up your cellphone to save the bees?
___________________________
What a great rant, in its true full glory, which I am just highlighting here. Wouldn't it be strange if we found out cellphones are causing the end of human life.
"Real Time: with Bill Maher" PODCASTS his entire HBO show plus extra internet content. This rant will be out in podcast form on or after the 28th April 2007.
The rant is also in a YouTube video box on this page.
I personally think cellphones are causing a inter-dependence in our culture that is not healthy. The EM fields and radio waves aside, 16 year 'olds' and younger should learn self reliance and personal responsibility. Maybe even some ingenuity and real world skills like fixing a flat, or having to be prepared for a worst case scenario, in isolation. I don't have a cellphone because I don't want to be reachable when I am not at home.
I realise this is an archaic way of thinking...that the real world is leaving me behind. I agree. But cellphone users don't understand that they are being desensitized to "Big Brother" over their shoulder. It may not be happening now, that we are tracking people through their cellphones, but we can do it and it will happen. Besides if all the new towers and users are causing environmental damage... well I just don't think they are a good idea on the scale we have. I do think that some people need cellphones, for big business and government officials an instant decision can be very important. But come on.
Your child does NOT need a cellphone. It is not healthy for them and may be destroying our ecosystems ability to maintain itself. The parenting fears you are using connectivity to overcome can be solved by more attentive and informative parenting in general. Without the "cellphone safety net" and illusion of security via said connectivity, your children would be a bit more contemplative in their actions. Not to mention they would pay attention to what they are doing in the space they occupy instead of walk through life with there crooked arm stuck to the side of their heads and day-dreaming about the conversation they are having with some other soul obliviously moving through their world.
It is a mental illness I tell ya!! Now it appears to also be an environmental hazard. More than that.. cellphones' EM fields could trigger a catastrophic collapse of our ecosystem and: WE ALL DIE... "and you little dog too." Wicked Witch (of the west?)
1 comment:
Man, I miss you so much! I have been talking about the bee problem since about late January when I read about it the first time. Some people have even argued with me that Einstein didn't say that!
haha, and here me thinking that we are fucked if bees disappear...
If amazes me and saddens me when I see a 10-11 year old with a cell phone (even younger) having no social interaction with a plant.
Children that have never known what it is to go camping, hiking, or simply spend some time rolling around in the dirt. Nature disassociation is what I call it.
Welcome to the machine.
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