tech-NO-logy

Perhaps I am going o come across as an utter hypocrite but sometimes I do rather worry abut societies over reliance upon technology and it’s ability to sap our morality.

I have a Facebook account like most folk and given that your reading it, I rather obviously have a blog. However I have noticed that technology is allowing more and more of us to behave like utter arseholes. Case in point being the young lady I saw the other night. She was rather inebriated and was staggering on and off the sidewalk, shouting incoherently at the traffic that was swerving to avoid her. People were egging her on and I reckon around half of them were filming her antics on their mobiles. Note that they weren’t using said devices to call for the old bill to assist the clearly at risk woman, they were using her distressed state as a source of entertainment. It’s a similar thing whenever there’s a disaster of accident, people tend not to call for help, their first instinct is to film the goings on in the hope of garnering a little fame for themselves and perhaps a few bob at the same time.

There’s a whole host of so called funny videos on Youtube of drunks unable to walk or making prats of themselves. When did we lose our decency, our instinct to help our fellow human being? When did it become ok to laugh at those less fortunate than ourselves?

That’s not to mention the lack of etiquette when people use mobiles. I understand that they’re to be used when out n about but why on earth do people feel the need to have loud and public conversations about things that should remain private? I’ve heard countless tales of peoples sex lives or work colleagues they don’t like.

Then we come to the internet, an invention both wonderful and evil in equal measure. If it wasn’t for the internet, I wouldn’t have made the friends that I have, nor travelled to the places I have. I dread to think what my life would have been like had I not logged onto the world wide web. However, whilst the internet has enabled humanity to communicate great things it has also given us the ability to spread great evil around the world like so much plague. Look at child pornography (don’t actually look at it, I was using a figure of speech!) or terrorists posting beheading videos. See, that’s something else I don’t quite get. There’s a proliferation of gore websites. Why on earth use something as wonderful as the Web to look at something as dreadful as dead people?



I despair of people at times. Perhaps I am just a Luddite!