Technology: Ignorance Is Unacceptable
Jeff Moses
I have a smartphone. You know what I use it for? To play games, update my Facebook and check my bank account balance.
This is a worse misuse of power than George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s presidencies combined!
Here I sit with this wonderful device capable of doing a million different things, and all I can figure to do with it is play, gossip, and look after my $2.13.
Not saying everyone with a smartphone should be up-to-date on every issue and every topic, but maybe having one less level of “Angry Birds” and spending that five minutes on CNN catching up on the news of the day.
But obviously there are other ways to stay informed other than with a smartphone. If you’re reading this, you obviously have time to read a newspaper, so take it a step further when you finish your Mesa Legend, go pick up a new issue of New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
If you have regular access to a computer, which if you are reading this, you probably do, go google the words “breaking news” and the date.
If you don’t have regular access to a computer, watch the news on TV. No TV, you say? Listen to National Public Radio.
The point, Thunderbirds and Thunderbirdettes, is the news is out there. It’s important and, good God, is it getting frightening.
The American economy seems to be beyond the comprehension of all of our leaders while the U.S. Postal Service is considering a shutdown, and we, the American people, witnessed the closest thing to a public lynching on Sept 21 we’ve had in who knows how long.
College students mobilized and brought about real and lasting changes in the past, and they weren’t stronger, smarter, or even better organized than us.
They were better informed and more motivated, and I think they were more motivated because they were more informed. They knew what they were fighting for.
So I am issuing a challenge, not for us to mobilize and start a revolution, but how about if you read this, go find an important national or international news story, read up on that, and tell us about it on the Mesa Legend’s Facebook page.
