lol.

if that is the one you referenced with your link

I also like the line “RAY! Next time… someone asks if you are a god…. say YES!!” heee.

Take for example – the latest Bubble Boy fiasco. On the day it transpired, I started reading the story and when I got to the part where the mother told 911 “My son is in a UFO!” I stopped reading. Is it just me, or do I have some kind of “special fake detector” in my brain ? I knew right away it was fake. If your child was mistakenly hidden away in a weather balloon that you were playing around with, and it took off into the air, and you called 911, would you tell the operator your child was in a UFO for petes sake? No.You would tell the operator that your child was (possibly) stowed away in a weather balloon type of aparatus that mistakenly got loose and was floating up into the sky! Geez.

Am I not in tune with the Fantasy World that everyone else seems to be trying to escape into ? Am I missing the entire point of your post ? I hope not.

Am I some old fogey dinosaur trying to cling to the “old world” and the way it used to “be” (I am having a Logans Run moment! lol). I am 45 but I feel more like 95. I feel like those old fogies who are constantly saying “I hate these new shows! I hate the media! Young people are headed for doom & gloom! I hate all these loud, fast, obnoxious commercials!” (half the time I do not even know what the commericial is advertising ??). Maybe I am the only one.
I do not have cable TV (gasp). My mom has cable TV, “only” the 75 channels or whatever. But still. Commercials, commercials, they drive me insane. And the fake shows of course.

And then all this stuff we get in the mail now – regular postal mail, and email. Who has time to slog through all that stuff?

Is it old fashioned of me, to say that the best way to get someone’s attention – my attention that is – and/or business – is to present your service/product with dignity, intelligence, quality of service/product, a good price, etc?
or maybe I am dreaming. No one wants to pay attention to that stuff anymore?

Does the typical american have to be “shocked” and “stimulated!!!!” into buying something or paying attention to something? Attention spans are so short – like – extremely SHORT. Even TV shows, it seems, the characters in the shows have to speak very quickly and use as few words as possible. I watch some of them at mom’s (have no choice), and wonder ‘what exactly is it they are saying? I don’t really know!’

Maybe people are reading my post and wondering the same thing! lol.

Am I just an old sluggish, outdated, outmoded, uncomprehending turtle? I feel like it somedays.

I find myself tuning *out* if I feel someone is trying to sling two or three words my way, and waiting for me to make a decision based on that, or to make a comment.

I think I am TUNED OUT. Especially to marketing hype. It is all so fake and … what word am I searching for ?? Insulting to the intelligence ?? All americans have short attention spans and are gullible?

I dunno.

Thank you for letting me ramble on your blog. I am sure people tuned out after about the first sentence.Lol.
amy

Unfortunately, time remains the one item modern economists prefer to ignore. To illustrate the importance and value of time, let’s look at the actions of people commanding a great deal of wealth. They devote enormous resources to make as much use of their limited time as possible. For example, the rich do not stand in lines, rather, they pay people to stand in lines for them. They don’t prepare their own meals or clean their houses. The time thus saved pursuing these endeavors is put to use towards more productive activities. This is prima facie evidence that time is scarce and valuable, and thus marketable. Even in a Star Trek-like world where material scarcity is a thing of the past, time still remains scarce.

Thus, as time is scarce, so it is the time it takes to pay attention to something. Until man becomes immortal his attention will remain a scarce, thus marketable, commodity.