{"id":5729,"date":"2017-12-16T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2018-01-14T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:27:55","slug":"danger-in-cell-phone-la-la-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5729","title":{"rendered":"Danger in Cell Phone La La Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Danger in Cell Phone La La Land<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0LA Progressive,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>by <\/span>Shawn Hamilton,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

L<\/strong><\/span>ately I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered a surprising number of people in public who seemed to be talking to themselves. Often when this happens, I assume these folks are talking to me, so I respond in some way as polite custom dictates, only to be ignored\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor to receive a disapproving glance for having invaded someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s privacy bubble. Usually by this point I would realize the person was talking on a cell phone or similar electronic device, and I would feel like a fool.<\/p>\n

I first apprehended the potentially adverse social consequences of personal electronic devices in, appropriately, 1984. I was attending Humboldt State University, and I noticed a classmate wearing Walkman headphones day after day and commented in class that he seemed to be using them to tune the rest of us out. For me this was the beginning of what I now see as a deleterious trend that is getting so much worse than I initially anticipated.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s I boarded a train in Taiwan and got a preview of the cell phone madness that would soon afflict the States. Bizarre sounds began to erupt all over the car\u00e2\u20ac\u201dringing, buzzing, beeping, Beethoven. These noises would happen, and there would be several people engaging in solo conversation, often in loud and sometimes angry voices. Acknowledging cultural relativity, I unsuccessfully resisted the feeling that imposing one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal conversation on others is a bit churlish.<\/p>\n

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It can happen so quickly. The man standing on the sidewalk has not yet had time to react.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Danger in Cell Phone La La Land,\u00c2\u00a0LA Progressive,\u00c2\u00a0by Shawn Hamilton,\u00c2\u00a0 Lately I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered a surprising number of people in public who seemed to be talking to themselves. Often when this happens, I assume these folks are talking to me, so I respond in some way as polite custom dictates, only to be ignored\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor to receive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[672,669,668,670,673,671,674,128],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1up","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6508,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6508","url_meta":{"origin":5729,"position":0},"title":"Danger In Cell Phone La La Land","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"by Shawn Hamilton (Originally published in the LA Progressive, 2016) Lately I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered a surprising number of people in public who seemed to be talking to themselves. 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