Introducing the new Apple iPerson complete with multi touch and volume control, doesn’t it feel good to touch, doesn’t it feel good to touch, doesn’t it feel good to touch.

My world is so digital, I have forgotten what that feels like.
It used to be hard to connect when friends formed cliques, but now it’s even more difficult to connect now that clicks form friends.

But who am I to judge…

I face Facebook more than books face me hoping to book face to faces, I update my status 420 space to prove Im still breathing; failure.
To do this daily means my whole web wide world would forget that I exist. But with 3000 friends online only 5 I can count in real life, why wouldn’t I spend more time in the world where there are more people that LIKE me. Wouldn’t you?

Here it doesn’t matter if I am an amateur person, as long as I have a pro-file, my smile is 50% genuine and 50% genuine-HD, you will need blu-rays to read the whites of my teeth, but im not that focused.

Ten tabs open, hoping, my problems can be resolved with a 1600 x 1700 revolution, this is a problem with this evolution, doubled over, we used to sit in tree tops, till we swung down and stand up right, then someone slipped a disc, now we’re doubled over at desktops.

From the Garden of Eden, to the branches of Macintosh, Apple picking has always come at a great cost.
iPod, iMac, iPhone, iChat, I can do all of these things without making iContact.

We used to sprint to pick and store Blackberries, now we run to the Sprint store to pick Blackberrys, it’s scary.
I can’t hear the sound of mother nature speaking, over all that Tweeting, and along with it is our ability to feel as it’s fleeting.

You would think these headphone jacks inject in the flesh the way we connect, the disconnect, power ON. So we are powerless, they got us love drugged. Like e-pills, so we e-trade, e-mail, e-motion like e-commerce because now money can buy love, for 9.95 a month – click!

To proceed to checkout – click! To X out where our hearts once were – click!
I’ve uploaded this hug, I hope she gets it – click!
I’m making love to wife, I hope she’s logged in – click!
I’m holding my daughter over a Skype conference call while shes crying in the crib in the next room – click!

So when my phone goes off in my hip, I touch and I touch and I touch, because in a world where there are voices that are only read and laughter is never heard or I’m so desperate to feel that I hope the technologic in reverse the universes so the screen can touch me back, and maybe it will, when our technology is advance enough to make us human again.

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I enjoy his delivery, but as for the content... Meh... these sentiments are a cliche at this point. Too easy, too insignificant and way too futile. There will always be an audience for this kind of blabber and some people will think it's deep and meaningful. But that too will pass.

Cell phones are immoral, from the slave labor mining of precious metals to the sweat shop assembly, to the toxic waste shipped back to china.

Your sentiments are cliche and your herd mentality a detriment to the global herd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_burtynsky_on_manufactured_landscapes.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/foxconn-workers-threaten-mass-suicide-if-working-conditions-arent-fixed

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/26-4

>> ^Peroxide:

Cell phones are immoral, from the slave labor mining of precious metals to the sweat shop assembly, to the toxic waste shipped back to china.
Your sentiments are cliche and your herd mentality a detriment to the global herd.

Cell phones are not immoral. Slave labor mining, sweat shop assembly and toxic waste pollution are definitely immoral, but don't confuse the ends with the means. Our desire for cell phones may not justify the immoral actions used to produce them, but that doesn't mean the cell phones themselves or our desire to use them, is wrong.

As for the poem, technology is amoral. It is a tool, which can be used to enslave or enhance your life. Would he have said the same thing about the printing press?

I have acquired knowledge, discovered art and laughed at the world (and yes those things have equal value) on this site alone, and that means the internet makes my life better. I have had visceral, collaborative, experiences in online games I could never have in real life (at least, until the zombie apocalypse hits).

But it's a part of my life, not the whole. Guitar hero doesn't compare to actually playing guitar. SSX has none of "oh crap, I've overcooked this and now I'm really gonna hurt" adrenaline rush of actually snowboarding. As much as I love taking down a room of thugs in Arkham Aslyum, it's a pale shadow of the intricacy of martial arts.

So yeah, take what you want from the web, but go have a beer with some friends every now and then

@Peroxide You just belong to a different herd. Do not kid yourself about your own affiliations with the troupe you saunter with. You're a labourus monkey like everyone else, no better no worse ( unless you outright kill babies )

all this cynicism. i find when looking at slam poetry, it's more about the delivery than necessarily the content. this is a man delivering his take on an experience with skill. the word-smithing and the performance here are an A+. i'm not sure we get to judge the message, it's how he delivers them that is impressive and artful.

Chaos and Bone, you both make semi-valid points. However, if you buy cotton picked by slaves, and then say "but don't confuse the ends with the means. Our desire for cotton may not justify the immoral actions used to produce it, but that doesn't mean cotton or our desire to wear it, is wrong."

nope, cotton picked with slave labour is immoral to support through a consumer purchase.

I will however admit that you need a cell phone in today's society to get a job. I never said that no one should own electronics.

@BoneRemake, I hope I do belong to a different herd. I guess we'll see which group of monkeys treats the other monkeys with more kindness and love.

I never said we need to do away with cell phones, or computers, but Foxxcon type operations need to stop, and products need to be recyclable before I consider them ethical. None of this is pie in the sky utopianism, it just takes people who care, but nobody cares for the dead of Foxxcon, they just want to play angybirds. (Or for bone, monkeys who care, whatever you consider us.)

>> ^Peroxide:

Chaos and Bone, you both make semi-valid points. However, if you buy cotton picked by slaves, and then say "but don't confuse the ends with the means. Our desire for cotton may not justify the immoral actions used to produce it, but that doesn't mean cotton or our desire to wear it, is wrong."
nope, cotton picked with slave labour is immoral to support through a consumer purchase.


Emphasis mine; that's a completely fair point, but it's not what you said. You said "cell phones are immoral". Again, cotton is not immoral, cotton picked with slave labour is.

Got me on a technicality...

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