On a busy corner in New York City a man was shot, and there were 12 people around him. When the police asked them what they saw, they all answered the same thing. I was texting when I heard the shots. It would be simple to assume that one of those people actually fired the shot. Now it is up to the police to figure out what really happened.
The story is fictional, but it mirrors today’s social attitudes, we don’t pay attention to our surroundings because we have our heads down looking at the smart phone in front of us. We actually bump in to people along the way. We sometimes don’t even look as we cross the street. To compound matter worse, the drivers are also on text messages. Ever wonder how we survive?
I was attending a town hall meeting tonight, and while the speaker was talking, grant you it was city council stuff witch tends to be boring. I looked around and if there was a head looking up at the speaker I failed to see it. We have become a society of smart phone phobia, if we don’t have the phone with us we feel defenseless. Where have all of those of us that prefer face to face gone? Even at Starbucks to initiate a conversation, you have to interrupt the phone, god forbid you did that for you would get a frown that would freeze you from the phone user. Just observations of people now days, I guess talking in a park is out…..
The Hotel Guy
No phone today