Common Sense Endures A New Apocalypse
Phones revealed what has been wrong with people for a very, very long time. Every overeager, understimulated, needy, first-world complaint of people so utterly surrounded by convenience, their collective response has been to press themselves to every inconvenience they can imagine. Before phones, I never rented an apartment from anyone who composed a monologue of 30 pounds of bullshit in a 2 lb. canister, rattling her concentrated gibberish like some desperate refugee from a country that doesn't exist anymore, then playing the recorded message to my bewildered, worried face like some nonagenarian virgin who's only just discovered that vibrators are real. Before phones (as we know them) there were no multi- billion dollar technology companies creating zillions of unfuckable adbots for millions of un-wanted users like some David Lynch rip-off nightmares mixed with lazy/bullshit John Waters "impersonations"...