Texting

Yesterday there was an article stating that the majority of high school and college kids text each other at least 100 times every day. Why? Are these people so out of touch with themselves that they have to electroniclly group together to make one single intellectual entity? Are the kids today so ignorant and protected from the world that they are unable to think for themselves? Or is it a matter where they are so insecure that they have to group together electronicly to feel safe and belonging?

Modern, industrialized man existed on this planet for several hundred years without even a telephone. Now the kids can't even exist an hour without punching the keys on their cell phones. What's happened to us as a people. Who gave cell phones to kids anyway. That's like sending little Johnny to his room, stocked with a television, his own phone, his Game Boy, computer, WiFi and XBOX for punishment. Where in hell do you think the kid wants to be to begin with?

This story is even worse. I've seen middle aged male adults in grocery stores calling their wives on their cells to ask what kind of toilet paper to buy, which brand of bread, which toothpaste. For God's Sake, people. Learn to make a decision for yourself and live with it!

It seems the level of intellect in America is falling rapidly into a kind of group ignorance that requires everyone to be "connected" with all the other dummies so no one feels any less stupid than the others.