Addendum: It's not like most people's thoughts nowadays (or ever, I suppose) are worth recording anyway. How wants someone pouring doxa into your ear over and over again, which is what voicemail promises. It's not simply that you can record your "thoughts" but that they can be repeated, exactly the same way, a possibly infinite number of times. Infinite repeatability of a wrong call, some British woman telling me she's going to Publix to pick up groceries in the golf cart. Voicemail doesn't have to be eliminated altogether, it can be used for the purposes of humor...instead of everyone getting their own voicemail, let's purposely through a monkey wrench in the system, let's send calls to other people's voicemail, and have their calls sent to us, and then let's have the option of sharing these messages with as many people as we'd like, this would foster a new age of global communication via voicemail transfers...but may also bring about the collapse of privacy, but maybe that's just securing the inevitable.
good, my friend. you saw the reason I posted this: to see the absurdity in the anger we feel when our voice gets cut off by voicemail!
in reality, all we had to do was suspend our belief long enough to give an evolutionary explanation of the way we feel, and then follow that with the words "it's only natural." so, not only do we realize that it's okay to get angry at voicemail, we "realize" and begin to create our self-awareness as a human race and learn to laugh at this absurdism.
I mean, come on. is voicemail REALLY worse than a cockroach? no. then why the hell does everyone, after reading this, think for at least 5 minutes that they might actually want to exterminate it.
and there, you see my reverse pychological dialectic.
what I did was make you give me the answer by proposing something so ridiculous that only the truth seemed the most logical way out.
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in reality, all we had to do was suspend our belief long enough to give an evolutionary explanation of the way we feel, and then follow that with the words "it's only natural." so, not only do we realize that it's okay to get angry at voicemail, we "realize" and begin to create our self-awareness as a human race and learn to laugh at this absurdism.
I mean, come on. is voicemail REALLY worse than a cockroach? no. then why the hell does everyone, after reading this, think for at least 5 minutes that they might actually want to exterminate it.
and there, you see my reverse pychological dialectic.
what I did was make you give me the answer by proposing something so ridiculous that only the truth seemed the most logical way out.
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