A post bewailing self checkouts at the grocery store

[moniss]

50. Zager and Evans

from 1969. Moon landing and a little get together called Woodstock. I always liked the line "ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.....everything you think, do or say is in the pill you took today". So here we are in a far shorter time and maybe the "pill" aka "social media" has arrived early. No prescription needed. Never asked for one either but we got it.

The line for the automation of eating is "ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes....you won't find a thing to chew, nobody's gonna look at you". Eating to the corporations is just nourishment of the physical body without realizing the importance of human contact and interaction and that something very valuable takes place when a real human being looks at another and asks how your day is going and you can mention the weather and both nod. But that takes a moment or two and those precious few seconds have been calculated to cost the corporation many millions of dollars. So they take that away from you. More and more until we are just shuffling past each other on our way to our next automated experience. No need to feel anything is wrong. If you do there is now automated counseling you can buy online and probably coming soon to a kiosk in Walmart etc.

Don't give up easily the things of value.