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January 21, 2007
Scott Stantis Hates Technology - But Carmen Doesn't
Ah yes, let's go back to a time before technology pulled families apart...oh, wait...
Okay admit it - if you laughed at this morning's Prickly City it was because the punchline reminded you of the much funnier "anti-dentite" line from Seinfeld where Stantis stole it from.
This is one of the most obvious "Hi, I'm Scott Stantis, and I'm going to talk directly to you through Carmen" strips he's ever done. You see Stantis isn't against technology, he just wants to stop running the human race just for a few brief, glimmering moments so we can all come together for a big group hug. Mom, put on your pearl necklace, cook us up a roast, and we'll all sit around the kitchen table while Dad puffs away on his pipe and the children - Beaver and Buffy - tell us about how much they love their parents. You know, like in the 50s - before technology ruined America.
In Stantis's eyes technology is the Big Bad that's tearing our families apart. Not a poor economy where both parents have to work to make ends meet. Not a housing market where the bubble just burst and all of those over-valued houses with their variable mortgage rates are driving people into bankruptcies and foreclosures. Not rising gas prices thanks to the international "good will" our President has been spreading around the globe. Nope - it's all because Buffy has a cell phone and gets to talk to her friends on there instead of on the house phone where in the past Dad would come home and tan her hide because he couldn' get through to tell Mom that he was going to be home late from work.
Sorry, I just get irritated with Stantis and other conservatives acting like technology is tearing us apart. Heck if anything it's bringing us too close together. I can talk to someone in Japan on the computer if I want to, not that I really need to. Most of the people yapping on cell phones while they're driving are having conversations that aren't necessary. I can get a letter from a distant relative in a matter of seconds instead of waiting three days for snail mail to deliver it.
But maybe Stantis has a point. Maybe we should put down our "toys" and spend some "quality time" with our families.
So let's all skip Stantis's "weekly" podcasts from now on. Maybe that can bring us together. At least it'll save us five minutes once a month.
Comments
He's so wrong. Without technology, how would I be able to post a link to a satellite image of his house?
current (maybe former) house?
Posted by: FredN. at January 21, 2007 11:46 AM
