I work in the transportation segment of the retail industry.  Every  day we
have truck drivers call and ask for directions even though they have the
latest navigation systems available either in cab or through their  dispatchers.
They need to know where they are and how to get to our  facility.  I have not
been impressed by navigation systems because they  supply a demand created by
the sellers of these devices.  To travel you  need to know where you are and
how to get where you want to go.  A cute  little voice that says, "Turn left in
200 feet, stupid!" represents just how  much we have fallen victim to school
systems that leave students unable to  understand where they are (in a literal
and metaphorical sense) and how much we  are victims of commercial interests
which tell us what is the latest fashionable  thing we simply "must have".
Personal choices have become a reflection of our  own images distorted through the
mirror of society's norms and  expectations.  Maybe we have just become sheep
needing the economic  shepherds to tell us what to do. Don't just buy one of
these things because they  are really cool.  Maybe you can find your own way
in life.

Rico Dagastino
Memphis, TN

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