I'm old enough to remember when there was no such thing as mobile phones; in fact, when I drove to England to move to Nottingham with only my possessions in my car in 1995, I never had a mobile phone. I never had any way of telling where I was going apart from a road atlas in my car.
I'm also old enough to remember pictures of the 'Tomorrow's World' programme from the 1980s or 1970s or something which people used to roll out on BBC News all the time, to show that the advances in technology would create so much spare time for us all that we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves robot lawnmowers, hoovers, kitchen appliances that did all our work for us pretty much everything taken care of so that we could just sit and contemplate our navels, wondering what to do with all the spare time that we had.
This continues to be the case, and this myth continues to be spouted; mobile phones arrive so you can have emails on your phone and phone people regularly and communicate on social media and organise yourself with an enormous amount of list apps, etc.
And so, there you go; all of that is sorted out technologically, and you have tonnes more time, yeah? I bet you don't.
The problem is that we're trapped in a system like a Ponzi scheme, which sells us the technology to give us more time but costs more money, so we have to work harder to get the money to buy the technology to save time, and we're stuck.
The only way out of this is to take the time out of the equation and f*ck everybody else.
It goes back to that scene in Wolf of Wall Street with Matthew McConaughey when they're in the restaurant, and he's explaining to Leonardo DiCaprio that it's only the broker that takes the money out of the system; everybody else stays in the system.
Be the broker.
Take the time that you want, that you need and don't be bamboozled by the fact that downloading another app or buying a bit more technology is going to save you this miraculous amount of time so you can sit on the beach.
Blog Post Number - 4184
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