{"id":6508,"date":"2020-12-23T04:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T00:36:39","slug":"danger-in-cell-phone-la-la-land-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6508","title":{"rendered":"Danger In Cell Phone La La Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Shawn Hamilton (Originally published in the LA Progressive, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

(Continued<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. 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],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1GY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5729,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5729","url_meta":{"origin":6508,"position":0},"title":"Danger in Cell Phone La La Land","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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