MY WEEK SO FAR

It seems as if the only comic relief I get is to look back and exclaim,"And this is only Tuesday?"
I was speaking with a dear friend via long distance, on a land-line, trying to figure out why we have to fight so hard to get anything done in this so-called technologically speedy world.  It suddenly occurred to me that this technology changes more often than I change my underwear."New" is such a relative word that it can mean anything associated with time.Here's an example. Both of my computers blew their monitors out two weeks apart.I own two because my livelihood depends on being able to access the Internet. I have to use one larger than my hand because I'm old and can't see. IT specialists took four days to sell,upload software, and get my new computer to function. This is speedy? What scared me even more was the fascination the IT's seemed to have with flexing their muscles.

Could this flexing be for me?  I'd given no indication I was interested in anything more than a quick fix on a new machine so I could get back to work. I was standing in front of a Bosnian IT in a muumuu, floppy slippers, and a large bobby-pin holding my mossy hair off my neck. It was hot...sweltering hot.I hadn't touched a toothbrush, or taken a shower. I think I farted. So why the muscle flexing?

I asked Elvir,the Bosnian IT," What is hurting?"
He looked up with a grin and said,"My English, she's broken. I not hurt. Mehmet wants me go lunch."
Now I'm sure the flexing is "mating-dar", and I wonder if this is why everything takes so long in our world of technological  repair?

And it's not just hardware repair that's a victim of mating-dar. Seems to me,  everything that's related to the Internet is expensive, and takes a really long time to get solved,fixed,or pronounced dead.I am able to use credit cards, another example, for only a year or less before mating-dar hits them.I've closed two credit card accounts since March 2012, and it's only July! Paperwork is pushed on me, the consumer, to provide details of the breach of privacy known as hacking. Hacking is an unsolvable problem created by the Emperor's New Clothes tailor. I am tired of being a victim of hackers and electronic failures. No time is ever saved.Nothing can be easily tracked.The customer/victim is always the main suspect.

The computer age has moved too quickly into  all of our lives. I don't care what Norton you use,what Cloud you buy, or what IT has mating-dar; it always turns out the same.BADLY!Businesses are being lost,governments are using technology to invade countries,and people are going bankrupt. I blame the Wall Street Failure,our Global Depression,and Unemployment on the overused,misunderstood, and misuse of today's technology.Since people are so easily manipulated, just imagine how easy it is to manipulate a machine!

Years ago an ex-relative decided he was going to embrace a computer driven business model.Since fishing and drinking were more important than being a diligent, hardworking, hands on business owner, he left his day to day management to ditzes via computer. He went belly up and drove a fine business into the ground within a year. He was using mating-dar.

It's no accident that businesses have shoved responsibilities of failures to a machine instead of firing the flesh and blood moron that created the problem in the first place.Cronyism has been around since money began to change hands. Personal computers came of age during the time we recommended all children be winners. They got shouts of "good job"for burping, and wore T-shirts of praise about everything.The result was a lopsided meter of  importance.The real world gave these children a long childhood that eventually slapped graduates in the face with disappointments they had never experienced once they left that motherly venue. An "A" in History became meaningless because everybody had an "A". Once again while we were praising nonsense, money was crowned the real King. We are seeing the fallout of overpraise in the disintegration of the Middle Class in America and Abroad. There is a pointed decline of the West. Not since the 16th century has the West been challenged by the East. The beginning of our civilized mating-dar began in the East, lapsed and was lost for many man-made reasons. However, the East is now again a force of reckoning. The East rules with power and money. America has become a house of bargains due to the fractionating effect of money, technology,and the ever present tug-of-war between which religion has the best mating-dar.

Tomorrow is the Fourth-of-July. Independence Day. A war fought long ago was supposed to insure our freedom.Wars are still being fought to try and save our country from those who want to ransack and dominate our economy. This is how countries have always overthrown each other. Our enemy is ourselves. Social Darwinism is as true today as it was in the 1830s. Looks like mating-dar is alive and well.