Excerpts from this month's humor column in the Observer:
The Declaration of Independence from Today’s World:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for sane people to dissolve the technology-enhanced bonds with an increasingly idiotic world and to assume again the station of well-adjusted human beings, you might as well explain why.
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Let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Today’s World has intruded on our lives – via every sort of device – with constant communication from co-workers, who apparently are paid per email, from stores where we bought one thing once, and from Nigerian bankers who really need our help.
It has spawned 24/7/365 global news networks that by God are going to fill every minute one way or another. Wolf Blitzer’s two-hour “Situation Room” is on every day at 4 p.m., and you better believe that by show time there is going to be a Situation for him to cover.
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Therefore, in the name of our own sanity, we do solemnly state that enough is enough!
We hereby declare our allegiance... to authenticity, not perfection; to living, not watching; to friendship, not connecting; to lifting up, not tearing down; to communicating, not connectivity; to real life, not reality shows; to community, not division; to values, not valuables; to self-validation, not others’ expectations; to our family, not TV families; and to gratitude, not cynicism.
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