What If We Stopped Using Electronics?

Imagine how much money we would save if we didn't pay for cable TV, internet service, multiple phone and cell lines; and if we didn't purchase computers and big screen TVs and mobile devices?

What if we didn't spend $15 to go see a movie or $50+ to go to dinner and have drinks?

What if we didn't drive so far to go to work everyday and spend so much time in the car burning gas?

Wouldn't the environment be better off without burning gas and producing all those plastics with toxic materials?

Imagine if we read books, played musical instruments and sang, wrote stories and songs, visited each other, gardened (organically, of course), went hiking with our pets, rode and groomed horses, sewed some of our own clothes, cooked at home, made preserves and canned produce.


It seems that instead of learning from the past and improving and living more easily based on the knowledge that has accrued, we are being pacified into numbness by bad entertainment with false social interactions and unreality. Goals fade further into the distance as we play computer games and waste time getting places we don't really want to be. Time passes without you realizing it because you have been staring at a screen.

Shut down the electronics. Transition to the now. Listen to the birds outside your home. See how much you can do without and how much more reality you can add into your life. Practice a musical instrument and learn a song, then share it with friends. Read a book and write a short story about something that happened to you this week.

Electronics are useful, I just want them to stop directing my life. They take up so much money and time. I'm ready to redirect my energies.