Manually Correcting the AutoCorrected Mind
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I think too much – so I’m told.
Every time someone more relevant than me pegs me for the crime, I’m taken aback.
I don’t know if it’s this landlocked state. I don’t know if it’s the postmodernists’ post everything mindset.
Perhaps it’s the basic principle that a person equals the content they consume.
I’m hoping the answer lies in one of those three options.
The fourth possibility leaves me alone against the country, and those are the kind of odds that lead to psych wards and lithium wages.
“Josh, do you think we wake up the sun?” my three-year-old niece asked me a week ago.
I nodded from the dozy comfort of a pink beanbag in the corner of her room. “Me too,” she said.
“Wake up! We already woke up the sun. You can’t go back to sleep.”
Now, hopefully I have avoided over thinking this – I felt a switch get hit in the basement of my brain. Here is a three year old, who I am almost certain has not experienced as much in life, telling me not to waste the day because we should earn it. How do we earn it?
The human family earns tomorrow by not being a collective moron. I’m no Nostradamus, but according to my calculations the United States probably won’t make it to the end of the week. Here’s why:
What do you concentrate on and execute without some sort of assistance? By assistance, I mean the kind of algorithm or technological brain-blower-upper that does the task for you.
Our cells phones utilize AutoCorrect to buffer our colloquialisms, laziness, and initial intentions. Nobody can spell.
Heck, we cannot even figure out when to giggle during popular sitcoms like “How I Met Your Mother” and “Big Bang Theory”. They have to provide a sweetened laugh track so our automatic brains know when to engage the laughing function.
Politics really show how the populous gets bent so easily.
Take the recent attacks on contraception. If the war had been slated as an open war against contraceptives, the majority of the nation would be against it.
But when one party makes it a religious argument – downplaying the religious integrity of the president – many people blindly hop on board. If someone salt and peppers “God’s will” into their editorializing statement or political speech, be careful your reaction is not instinctual.
“Wake up! We already woke up the sun.”
Time to shake the cobwebs my postmodern, nihilist compadres.
Time to rely less upon technology and more on your own intellect.
Whatever your skill is utilize it.
Don’t waste your life in the pangs of laugh tracks and AutoCorrect.
Keep a journal.
Do some volunteering.
Grab the steering wheel.
“You can’t go back to sleep.”
Each of us should strive to earn each day and perpetuate a better tomorrow than our yesterday.
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