Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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So Many Choices are Dividing Us. As our technology continually fragments, It results in a kaleidoscope of competing means of communication. How our news is transmitted from many rival sources As well as what type of means we just 'talk' to each other, Has divided our society, our politics, our religious groups, As well as our basic family structure! 'I listen only to this or that--the others are fake.' 'I do not and will not talk with you on such and such a technology-- I use only such and such a means to communicate.' The old fashioned telephone is now considered slow, intrusive, And the voice is obsolete! Faxing, Email, and texting plus others go quickly out of mode and fashion. With our present many means of learning what is going on (news!), Or how we just talk with each other, Has no longer brought us together, but has divided us, To the point that we just plain refuse to interact, Merely because of the 'brand' of the means used. With all this technology, we are being brainwashed Into separated states of isolation. Frank Maurer 19 May 2024 0840 Hours.