By now everyone but me has seen the "Woman falls into fountain while texting" video. I heard about it, but didn't bother. With some things, once you hear the title, you've heard everything you need to know.
It's that way with this video too, but that doesn't mean that its utility has ended.
If only she had the new iSight app that would show you what's ahead of you so that you could then use your iFail to see clearly to walk. Now THERE'S an idea!!
I believe that this woman's misfortune perfectly represents the USA at the current moment.
We are texting and walking through the mall. We are so absorbed in ourselves, our toys, our tech, our own little world that we neglect even the most fundamental of tasks. It never occurs to us that something may be ahead of us. That the smooth, level walking surface may change. Or that anything might change. When we reach that first indicator of trouble, we'll try to step over it-even though it's totally wrong. Our brain is so absorbed that we literally cannot even walk right. And so, we're headed for disaster on the big screen while unseen viewers will laugh at our misfortune and stupidity.
Execpt that in reality, we're walking not into a tame pool of water a foot deep , but over The Cliffs of Insanity. There'll be no "hot coffee" lawsuits after this fall.
Updated: I created a visual especially for this. Link is here
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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Perfect anology Alvie. Too many are indeed walking blind right over the Cliffs.
(kinda like did ya see the Stupor Bowl?)
Dennis
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Texas
Pilots call it being "Fat, Dumb, and Happy".
The results are usually called "CFIT", for "Controlled Flight Into Terrain".
Spot on. I see it every day around me, the self absorbed fools who walk around with a phone stuck in their ear or checking every 2 minutes for a new message. Not a clue where Egypt is or what the DHS is doing to them. Their only care is how strong their phone signal is or when the new @#%&phone comes out.
I have resigned myself to the sad fact that this nation deserves whatever catastrophe is waiting around the corner. No one cares enough to even put up some food or get their gear in order. My friends consider me a nut case, I've been warning them for years, and since nothing bad happened, they shot up their ammo and bought new trucks. Now they ignore me. And I look at them like the lady in the pool, your time is coming for not paying attention to the world around you.
0321
The current U.S.A. is a road runner cartoon.Wiley has walked off the cliff,just hasn't fallen....
One of the few blessings that will come from an EMP (solar or nuclear) will be that it will elimimate all of the cell phones, texting, and electronic annoyances...
Here is one more for the road...
"Boy walks off cliff while texting"
http://www.backpacker.com/hiking_texting_cell_phone_fall_death/blogs/daily_dirt/1851
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