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[I'm obsolete because I'm not smart.] |
What is frustrating, though, is that I have an LG 3450L flip phone from several years ago that is still in good condition. I discarded it in favor of a blackberry. Now, I know better, and I wish I had stayed with it. It did that which my current phone does - allows me to talk and text. The only trouble is that I cannot find its power chord, and the company no longer makes them or else I would have gone back to using it in a heartbeat. Plus it would probably look cooler now since it would be sort of retro. We all probably have one or more of those gathering dust in somewhere in our houses or apartments - all because someone or some company persuaded or fooled us into thinking that we needed an upgrade. And we keep getting fooled, for we keep upgrading and upgrading and upgrading. And they keep getting richer and richer because like kids we must have our new toys. And those discarded and replaced-by-marginally-newer devices, now useless because now unsupported, end up filling the garbage dumps of underdeveloped countries in Africa and elsewhere because such waste is too toxic to be dumped in the so-called developed countries. Now that is another story. But then again, who gives a "fecal-matter" or a flying "coitus" anyway.
[Photographic Art by Ric Couchman]
[Photographic Art by Ric Couchman]
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