All these years that people have been following me and i have not owned a cell phone during the entire period.  I think i have had two cell phones in my entire life and i either lost them or broke them within two months.  Essentially, believe it or not, i have lived my entire life without a cell phone.  Yes, that is true--i have lived my entire life (i am 77-years old) without a cell phone.

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And recently Krishnamurti and i have been talking about slowing down the mind to a bunch of cell phone addicts.

I heard that they tested four adults by making them turn off their cell phones at lunch and put them by their plates.  They discovered that on average every "fourteen seconds" someone would glance towards their cell phone.

I listened to Mara Gay about putting the cell phone away for "an hour" simply to get away.  You must be fucking kidding me!  Mara Gay is super smart and she cannot get away from her cell phone addiction.

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Oh, but how would i connect with people without a cell phone?  The question should be, how in the fuck do you think you connect with people "with a cell phone".  You are less connected with what really counts (i.e., friends, family, knowledge) without a cell phone than you are with one.  Don't believe me.

Well, let me tell you something.  This generation is less connected with the things that count than the previous generation, which was less connected than the generation before them.  We are nothing bt a bunch of self-conscious, self-addicting, creatures on a planet that is better than us.

Ah, i give you a cell phone is a worthwhile gadget if used properly.  The trouble is the makers of the cell phone never concerned themselves about how people should properly use their phone.  

Fourteen fucking seconds!  I cannot get over it.  How in the world can you slow your mind, when you cannot even get away from a piece of metal for even "fourteen seconds".  It takes probably five times as long to take ten breaths during a meditation exercise.  No wonder the world is all fucked up and we have the likes of "el trumpo", "muskadoo", and "banyontree" running the nation and thus essentially the world--in total chaos.

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Oh, but the cell phone opens up social media, you say.  Oh, really.  Talkmarkets is social media and i don't see much opening up from Takmarkets.  Talkmarkets and their elite editors have banned me from writing articles relating to the economy and finance.  Talkmarkets has sat on globanomics for more than four years now.  Talkmarkets and its social media followers are brain fucking dead from social media.  

There is not a person on the Talkmarkets social media site that understands what is on the Talkmarkets social media site.  If they did, they would put down their fucking cell phones for more than just "one hour in the day", but more like "twenty-three" hours of the day.

There is nothing on a cell phone that you cannot get somewhere else.  Believe me.  I live that way everyday.  You may know somethings that i don't, but i think i can probably still hold my own.

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My advice for you cell phone addicts.  Put your fucking phone down for a few hours, pick up a good book, and read something that actually challenges your mind, rather than confusing it all the time.  Here are a couple of good books to start with: (1) Globanomics (published, 2021); Bhagavad Gita (published, 500 BC); Cosmos Consciousness (published, 1903), and The Road to Enlightenment (not published, looking for a 2025 date). 

Oh, i forgot.  Since cell phones came out, no one reads books anymore.  That also helps dumb down our population.  Let's all quit reading books.  Banning books (especially the good ones) is cheaper anyway.

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ps.  My parents both lived to be in their nineties.  They lived without cell phones, baby seats in cars, without seat belt requirements, wars, famines, depressions, good times and bad times--and do you want to know something.  Their lives were as full as our lives are today.  Maybe even richer in a way.  Go figure.

ps1.  And if you think not having a cell phone is bad, then you should also know that i don't answer my "home phone" either.  I can always check my "missed calls" and return one if i want to.  Otherwise, the time is "mine" and not "yours or theirs".

ps2. Emails are my form of social contact.  Emails can be as disturbing as cell phones can be--but i think it is much, much easier to manage e-mail behavior than cell phone behavior.  It's much easier to ignore emails than phone calls.  Plus emails are less invasive