Avoiding High Tech Addiction, In Vain

I DON'T HAVE A TV or a cell phone. Not that these devices aren't absolutely marvelous, or anything like that. The thing I most like about them is my freedom not to have them. And for that, I thank good old American freedom. Horrible it would be to live in some petty dictatorship in which owning a huge flat screen with five hundred channels and a smart phone were mandatory. The tech police, knocking on your door, as you cower beneath your bed. I lost interest in television when Gunsmoke went off the air. I enjoyed TV more fifty years ago, with small grainy black and white video, and three channels, take your pick, walk across the room and change channels. Our modern flat screen multi channel setup is too much for me. I'm afraid of smart phones, and their addictive design and intent. I just know that if I had one, I would end up walking off a cliff, and never know it. I have a laptop, with which I use free public WiFi for this site, some email, and a couple other sites, but that's it. Social media I eschew, for some reason. I recall wanting to look at a few Facebook pages, but in order to do that you must have your own page. So I got one, but left it blank. I never use it. Other people post stuff on my Facebook age, and that's fine with me. I just can't get interested in Facebook. The plain fact is; all of the above are designed deliberately by very smart people to be addictive. Make electronic devices inherently addictive, then make everything you can do with them, every app, addictive, and you have millions of captive customers for decades. I can assure you that people like Mark Zuckerburg and Bill Gates are perfectly well aware of this, and wholeheartedly approve of it. Generally speaking, these multi billionaire high tech moguls, as well as most people who work deep within the high tech industry at high corporate levels, don't use electronic screens much. They understand the addictive danger, and they tend to severely limit their children's screen time, and their own. Cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, fast food, electronics, all designed carefully and deviously to addict people. How absolutely marvelous, how noble of our corporate masters. Welcome to the United States of Addiction.