THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

What’s The Frequency Kenneth?

Journal | 12.16.20

The late, great Louis CK (he’s not dead yet, but I don’t know if we’re allowed to talk about him yet after he admitted to masturbating in front of people that were apparently not into this social abnormality). Anyway, Louis had this bit about how unappreciative we are concerning how amazing all the technology is.

He told a story about being on an airplane when WiFi access on planes was first launched and the flight attendant explained to everyone that they had free Wifi now, and you could just login and do whatever you do on the internet in the sky. He said it was great, until it broke and the guy next to him said, “This is bullshit.”

Louis observed how quickly we all believed that the universe owed us something. That a thing we didn’t even know existed 20 minutes ago, was now something we deserved to have and we would be angry that it wasn’t being made available to us.

The worst thing about technology is when we come to rely on it and it fails. We all take electricity for granted until the power goes out, then you literally sit there in the dark, waiting for the lights to go back on. Last year, we lost power for 3 days and I mostly just sat there wondering when it was coming back on.