Image (satire)

[bibzgi]

I'm talking about when folks bring their new gadgets around.

Are they bragging or just on the cutting edge?

When mobile phones came out, some people bought plastic reproductions to put in their cars.

That is a funny example of how some folks must have the image without paying for it.

Imaging is so big in my country (US). It's so big that often the original is lost to not only the observer but the displayer.

Beep. Beep.

That's the sound of someone not many years ago taking an incoming call in the middle of a meeting.

Crash.

That's the oft-to-heard afterwards sound of someone multi-tasking in their car with wireless gadgets.

Blah blah blah.

That's me bragging that I got a portable operating system on a thumb drive.

No mention that I haven't got it working wireless.

[MidnightCowboy]

There are social, cultural, religious and political associations for this which even in the chit-chat forum we should maybe avoid Suffice to say it is one of the main reason why Americans in particular feel they are "misunderstood" in many other parts of the world. It's also contagious. You only have to look at what is happening in China now to appreciate this. Imaging of course is not new, it's just the power of it which some feel is developing at the expense of society as a whole. In one place that I spent some time, status or image was measured in camels or olive trees rather than having an iPod or new car every year

Anyone doubting this should watch this film. Great entertainment even if you have little interest in the content of the subject mater. I would force every youngster whining for the latest trainers to watch this (twice) and then reflect

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285309/