A textual Manifesto

I didn't think that measures such as this, made by someone such as my humble self, would be necessary, but the number of over heard conversations and related anicdotes makes it so.

Stated plainly, this:
Text messaging is not an acceptable prerequisite for a sexual liaison.
really, i find text messaging a deplorable way to initiate an encounter of any kind, but yet it persists.
Text messaging is so pervasive at this point that i have seen people have lengthy conversations, typing faster than should be legal, on their phones, without actually talking.


Using a technological instrument that was first invented for the purpose of communicating vocally in any way other than talking is perverse in the extreme, and the implications are far reaching.

Text messaging should desist immediately if the integrity of the self and society as a whole is to be maintained with any semblance of legitamacy.

I am not a technology phobe, nor am i some kind of purist. Though i would not go so far as to embrace it unapologetically or fearlessly, I believe in the internet. It has its controversies, but a number of pearls can be purloined from its cornucopia. Just to make it clear, i am speaking of the wikis, the youtubes, and the sapphic erotica, the ebaums and the pages and pages of invaluable text files.
Here is a space for democracy, in all its ignorant and hedonistic glory, but also, perhaps, savvy and thoughtful redemption. At the very least it is a true forum for freely deceminated knowledge (except for OED and the New Yorker--for that you mostly need a subscription.)

But text messaging? This is the crux of our solitude--a method so purely without any emotional or human attachment, a method of communicating that so implicitly yet thoroughly expresses the desire not to communicate, to not really want to talk to the other person. A kind of shield of casual indifference. So only the words remain, in some kind of void, so lightheartedly yet distructively disembodied (a similar phenomena resulting from AIM).
When you text message you are carefully erroding that which makes you human, each text message like sulfuric acid on the human soul.

The most lethal part, i fear, is the blissful innocence with which texting is used, the naivety, the thoughtless adoption of a new technology that is slowly making a new flesh.


Its not too late, but the transformation is almost complete.

You have been warned.