Blog 2-61 Homo Fonicus

The Law of Money

Money goes where money is.

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Homo Fonicus  A,D 3000

 Blog 2-61  The Future Homo Fonicus

Imagine your Friendly Old Blogger at a crowded tourist site, people-watching.  Crowds of tourists, short and tall, male and female, young and old. 

Instead of inventing stories about the individual strangers - your blogger’s usual silent occupation - he was attracted to something different. It was most noticeable in the 14-25 year-olds, particularly in the young ladies. Ohh. So why was your FOB watching young ladies? And wondering…  What was he looking at? 

Well for starters his attention was attracted to an age group that used to have straight backs, flat backs, with heads mounted vertically above square shoulders. Like homo sapiens. Seriously. 

On average these 2018 young people’s backs were more rounded, their heads more extended forward, than would have been the case thirty years ago. The number of girls - and young children - who were wearing glasses seemed higher, too. 

And, of course there were thousands of phones on display. (Ah, of course. That’s what the old fogg is getting at.)

Yes but. This is not a Luddite attack on current technology. It draws attention to a physical threat to the human race in the billions of screens of small devices absorbing human eyes and attentions in 2018. 

Your observer straightened his own shoulders and stood tall in a pose he thought was more erect, and tried to stretch back a pair of shoulders rounded by careless age (and of recent years by a lot of time spent before a computer screen).

Now, I could go on doing a futuristic look at how these changes will affect ideals of human body beauty. Will all round-shouldered young bucks prefer females of the same design?

I digress. A more important concern may be how the human intellect will be affected. Mind matters.

So let’s stretch what mind we have to the distant future of man - the age of the foniacs (3000  A.D) - 

They are recognizable by 

1 - hunched shoulders

2 - head thrust forward

3 - thick reading glasses

4 - hearing aid for hearing destroyed by earbuds

5 - rounded backbones all the way down to short and spindly legs

They will be afflicted by foniasm, a pleasurable mental aberration which excludes all sensations except those emanating from I-fones. Is this the beginning of the end of man” - addiction to his/her dopamine through a tiny screen?

No, I project a population divided, as now: there will be elites who can see, hear, run and think, and foniacs — kept under control by fine-tuned personal messaging. Just as the Roman emperors kept their mobs contained - by bread and circuses.  Bread was an issue of free grain. Circuses were performed in the colosseum where the proles watched the Christians & Lions Show, the Gladiators to the Death Show. and the Imperial Chariot Races. 

Today it is television, and the fone. Lots of circus power there, especially if you don’t mute the commercials

But what about the “bread”? Maybe a guaranteed annual income ?? !!!. 

Maybe, but the fatal disease of elites, the irresistible “MORE AND MORE AND MORE OF THE PIE” syndrome, will finally reach its consummation. No more bread for “them.”                       

That will result in mass foniac demonstrations. 

“The foniacs are revolting, Victor!”

“They’ve always been revolting, Harold.”!

So the elites cut off the foniacs' fone service  The foniacs go into violent withdrawal symptoms starting with rapidly twitching fingers. (Not good, if they happen to have access to assault rifles, which  will still be easy to obtain in America).

Coffee, anyone? Double double? Okay.

                                                                         

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