Luxury or Necessity?

[Hottub]

Smart Phones
iPods
Gameboys
Satellite Radio

Can we not live without them, or are we spoiled and over indulgent?

Please discuss.

[west milly Tom]

Smart Phones
iPods
Gameboys
Satellite Radio

Can we not live without them, or are we spoiled and over indulgent?

Please discuss.



As these things merely enhance our lives, and do not sustain us; luxury. Now I'm Larry Literal.

[GreatAmericanZero]

i think that i personally wouldn't have much difficultly living without those items. i'd still find shit to do

[biggestmexi]

Smart Phones
iPods
Gameboys
Satellite Radio

Can we not live without them, or are we spoiled and over indulgent?

Please discuss.

Satellite radio. I would go nuts with out listening to Ron and Fez now. So, necessity.
But its no crack. I listen at work anyway. and post at work. So they help me steal money!

Smart phone. Nope.
iPod. Still don't own one.
Gameboys. I am unsure what you mean. I had the first one which originally is called "Gameboy" or do you mean all portable gaming systems made by Nintendo.
If that, then no again.

[Kublakhan61]

Luxury - if they were necessity, then I'd own more then the ipod. No Smart phone. No Satellite Radio. No video games of any kind.
And I'm doing fine.

[RoseBlood]

Smart Phones
iPods
Gameboys
Satellite Radio

Can we not live without them, or are we spoiled and over indulgent?

Please discuss.

Of course we are spoiled and over indulgent and all of the above proves it, what's to discuss?

Of the aforementioned, I could live without a gaming system without any distress.

[Hottub]

Sorry literal Mexi.

Any portable gaming device, including PSP, Leap pad or Mattel Electronic Football.

*edit*
Music device not limited to Apple products either.

[west milly Tom]

Sorry literal Mexi.

Any portable gaming device, including PSP, Leap pad or Mattel Electronic Football.

Is Simon included?

[A.J.]

Smart Phones
iPods
Gameboys
Satellite Radio

Can we not live without them, or are we spoiled and over indulgent?

Please discuss.

I'm doing just fine without any of that crap.

Well, I miss the satellite radio for obvious reasons.

[RoseBlood]

I'm doing just fine without any of that crap.

Well, I miss the satellite radio for obvious reasons.

Just don't take away your beer and cigs!!!! :drunk::smoke:

[biggestmexi]

Just don't take away your beer and cigs!!!! :drunk::smoke:

Nope, I would be fine without that too. Less you mean cigars by cig's. Then maybe.


Oh no Mp3 playing device here other than my phone.

[A.J.]

Just don't take away your beer and cigs!!!! :drunk::smoke:

RoseBlood, you know me too well. :wub:

[midwestjeff]

Why didn't you just ask, "Can we live without them...."?

Due to this minor annoyance, I can't answer your question.

Ok, my answer is purple.

[Enabler]

I dont own any of those things except sattelite radio. If Ron and Fez left xm I would cancel my subscription instantly. So, luxury.

[Ritalin]

depending on your business, a smart phone has become a necessity, because people expect you to be available.

The rest of it? Toys.

[JustJon]

Mattel Electronic Football? Necessity.

[Recyclerz]

As others have said, satellite radio is nice but if they didn't have R&F it wouldn't be a necessity. For me the Ipod comes a little closer to necessity since I use it to listen to some NPR podcasts during my commute (after I've heard the R&F show, of course). Since I don't use the other two I wouldn't be losing anything, although I keep reading about how the smart phones in other, more technologically advanced countries than our own, smart phones are more important to people's lives than the PC is (with credit card capability, et al.). I'll wait until we catch up before buying one of them though.

After a week or two of jonesing though, you can live without just about anything.

[ralphbxny]

Luxury...but id like to go on the record with PIMB!

[utriculus!]

We're a distractionary culture. We have been for at least the last 20 years.

It's television, food, film, music, clothes, cell phones, gameboys, ipods, pdas, headphones, speakers, hifi, hd, video games, text messaging, picture messaging, myspace, facebook, linkedin, forums, satellite radio, fm radio, am radio, podcasts, on and on and on...

I think the key question to ask is What exactly are we running from?

Why do we need to constantly fiddle with something, hear something, see something on a screen? Why do we lack focus? And when I say focus I mean that not only as a measure of attention span, but what this lack of focus means for ourselves and our culture.

To put it another way, it is very easy these days to completely have no idea who you are, what you are passionate about, or even have any real, non-soundbiten opinions about anything.

Not only is it easy, it's common.

Luxury vs. necessity is an interesting question to me, because of course it's not necessary in any objective way.

But emotionally and culturally, yeah, I think we might need those things. Not because we'd physically die if we couldn't text our friends our inane thoughts and stories or throw the tv on in the background while we fall asleep, but because without these devices that allow one to be DETATCHED from oneself so many of us would have nervous breakdowns as the face in the mirror startled us with the horrible truth that we have started to become shells swaying in the slightest breezes of consumer influence.

I certainly wouldn't want to see what happened if I cut the strings that connects me to matrix.

[torker]

I own none of the aforementioned items.:sad: