Medea and Cell Phones

    No, I don't mean the robust (okay fat) woman played by Tyler Perry. I'm talking about the ancient play written by Euripedes in the 400's B.C.  For those who don't know, Medea follows a woman's quest for vengeance. After giving up everything by helping her lover and future husband find the golden fleece-hopefully we've all seen or read Jason and the Argonauts- she wants nothing more but marriage in return. They're finally wed, but she's better dealed when the king of Corinth offers his daughter Glauce to Jason. Basically, Jason leaves Medea for the rich and wealthy princess.  Now, we can all agree about the duplicitous nature of Jason leaving his wife for something better. But is it an uncommon occurrence? I mean to say, when do the bonds of friendship, marriage, and family end in regards to ones own self-aggrandizement? Do we humans put ourselves before others? And if we do, is it necessarily a bad thing? I'm not saying that selfishness is a good thing, but is it a natural thing? Is it morally pretentiousness to love and help each other at our own expense? I don't have the answer, and maybe it is morally pretentious, but perhaps the world is better under the guise of moral pretentiousness than without.

All right, what the fuck is up with cell phones????


      So apparently kids aren't getting to the required fourth stage of REM sleep because their leaving their cell  phones underneath their pillows. They're doing this in-order to receive calls in the middle of the night, so that they can answer immediately. They call this phenomenon On-Call Teenagers. This is allegedly making kids stupid because without the 4th stage of rem sleep your brain can't recover. In the world of instant communication, I wonder if perhaps humans are suffering more than just loosing rem sleep and brain cells. I'd like to think the technology boom of the 21st century is making us a global community. However, maybe the real crime of the technology boom is the quality of conversation. In the world of: lol,lmao,brb and omg, I can't help but think we've lost something. Perhaps we've sacrificed the quality of our conversations for the quantity. Oh yeah, and apparently brain cells......