Opus 2025-556: Click Bait: Amazing Isn’t

The Clickbait promised to show me all the amazing things that the Notes app on my iPhone would do for me.  Needless to say, I did not bother clicking on it.  There are a lot of things I don’t need my Notes app to do.  I’m already using the one on my iPad and iPhone and in a general sense it works just fine .

Hover over conversations I’ve had and hear what so many people keep saying about upgrades to their software.  One of the universal complaints that I keep hearing is that they don’t want updates.  Every time a new operating system comes out, a new word processor or who knows what else those of us who have a bit of experience and maturity, keep wondering who they’re trying to fool.  Every time I buy a new laptop, I buy the current version of Word Perfect.  I keep wishing I could go back to the old version I used several laptops again ago.  The so-called improvements actually make things worse.  In addition to just moving things around in order to feel needed, they take away the things that I use the most and add things to take three times as much time to implement.

I find myself looking for the old discontinued items when I shop.  If I need a new Bible I look for the old 1977 edition of the NASB.  I could understand why the 1611 KJV needed to be upgraded but the language has not changed that much since 1977.  I drive an old car and hope I never need to buy a new one because I don’t want a computer telling me how to drive.  I use GPS but I always check the route it has laid out to see if it is really where I want to go.  I even prefer Old Fashioned Oatmeal.

I accept the fact that there are young people out there who have time on their hands and still think that socialism is going to work.  These are the ones who probably think that the latest app or upgrade is going to revolutionize their life.  I disagree.  It will take up more time.  They will have less leisure.  Along with that they will do less thinking, reading and contemplating what’s actually going on around them.  They will be more susceptible to being controlled.

So no, I don’t need to know all the glorious things that my Notes app can do.  It does what it was designed to do and does it well.  That’s all I need . But then I’m just a dinosaur living in the world of mammals.

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