{"id":556,"date":"2018-04-16T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=556"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:21:04","slug":"so-why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/16\/so-why-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"SO WHY BOTHER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by JAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe future does not belong to the faint hearted, it belongs to the brave\u201d &#8211; Ronald Reagan<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nOne quarter of the internet is pornography<\/p>\n<p>Cyber bullying is on the rise<br \/>\nIt seems dark, pointless<br \/>\nAll so\u2026 fake<br \/>\nFake friends, fake likes, fake\u2026 everything<br \/>\nWhat ever happened to talking over the phone?<br \/>\nSo why bother<br \/>\nThe phone is practically used for only gossip<br \/>\nSpreading rumors, harming one another<br \/>\nYou can even have sex over the phone<br \/>\nIt seems fake, you\u2019re not even talking to the real person<br \/>\nWhat ever happened to sharing in hearing stories over the radio?<br \/>\nSo why bother<br \/>\nThe radio\u2026 it\u2019s not even real<br \/>\nThey make up half the noises they use<br \/>\nYou know that, right?<br \/>\nThe horse trot? Smacking tap shoes on a table<br \/>\nThe fake static? It\u2019s just tin foil<br \/>\nIt\u2019s so cheap, just share a real story among family<br \/>\nWhy do you have to import it from some stranger<br \/>\nLittle orphan annie, probably part of the damn soviets<br \/>\nWe should just stick to the paper, at least it\u2019s real<br \/>\nSo why bother?<br \/>\nYou read the paper?<br \/>\nIt disconnects us, draws us away<br \/>\nWe\u2019re too caught up in our crossword puzzles to even notice an oncoming car<br \/>\nWhat ever happened to getting news the old fashioned way?<br \/>\nAt least then it was more personal, there was a human element to it<br \/>\nNow, it\u2019s just lines on pulp<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no imagination, just\u2026 the facts<br \/>\nI remember listening to the telegram, a proper conversation<br \/>\nSo why bother?<br \/>\nThe telegram is an invasion, I swear on it<br \/>\nBeeps coming through to the house? No thank you<br \/>\nI\u2019ll know about the impending tornado when it gets here, and I\u2019ll like it that way<br \/>\nI don\u2019t need some stranger beeping at me from new york, when I\u2019m living in Kansas<br \/>\nAnd to learn a whole new alphabet? Hell no!<br \/>\nI\u2019ll just stick to my letters, thank you<br \/>\nThis whole telegram is a whole load of bull<br \/>\nBack in my day, we read real books<br \/>\nSo why bother?<br \/>\nBooks?<br \/>\nWhat a load of malarkey<br \/>\nThe common man will never read, that\u2019s for the upper class<br \/>\nYou think you\u2019re real slick, huh? Thinking you\u2019ve made it<br \/>\njust because you got your grubby little hands on a real book?<br \/>\nI don\u2019t care what new \u201cprinting press\u201d has been invented,<br \/>\nit\u2019s a fad, it\u2019ll be over soon, and we\u2019ll be forgotten as always<br \/>\nWe\u2019re not the wealthy, my boy. We\u2019re the forgotten<br \/>\nThe static of history<br \/>\nBooks are for people who matter<br \/>\nSo put that shit down and quit dreaming<br \/>\nBack in my day, we didn\u2019t even have books,<br \/>\nwe just read the bible, and that\u2019s all<br \/>\nI wish we could go back to the simple days,<br \/>\nwhen we read simple versus<br \/>\nSo why bother<br \/>\nThe written word inspires forgetfulness in its beholder<br \/>\nIf you really care about your knowledge, you\u2019d remember,<br \/>\ninstead of letting it spill out, like it\u2019s nothing<br \/>\nKnowledge is something to be earned,<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t just belong to everyone<br \/>\nThe written word breaks that rule, allows the simple man<br \/>\nto facts outside his reality and comprehension<br \/>\nThere will be a breakdown in the order of society<br \/>\nIt will turn on its head<br \/>\nI remember the days when we remembered everything<br \/>\nwe needed, like good, honest people<br \/>\nSo why bother<br \/>\nFor everyone of those, there is a Ben Carson,<br \/>\na little kid from the hood who made it, tooth and nail,<br \/>\nto become a neurosurgeon. Or a Sherman Alexie,<br \/>\nwho\u2019s told he\u2019ll never make it out of the reservation.<br \/>\nBut by breaking that expectation, he got through.<br \/>\nOr a Syrian refugee, always told that because they were a girl,<br \/>\nthey would never amount, and now they are learning to code,<br \/>\nbuild from chaos, a new order in which they have the power.<br \/>\nOf course, all these individuals are entering a lake,<br \/>\nwhere what what seems to surface is always the least dense,<br \/>\nbits of fluff, like the easy things in life, where pointless literature,<br \/>\nthe meaningless joke, the self obsessed selfie lie.<br \/>\nSo why bother? You bother because with each revolution,<br \/>\nthere comes a chance for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by JAMES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future does not belong to the faint hearted, it belongs to the brave\u201d &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p> One quarter of the internet is pornography<\/p>\n<p>Cyber bullying is on the rise<br \/> It seems dark, pointless<br \/> All so\u2026 fake<br \/> Fake friends, fake likes, fake\u2026 everything<br \/> What ever happened [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}