How Things Have Changed

The following is a Terry wife. Ah, yes, yes indeed, and welcome, my friends, Welcome to another installment episode as a word of White Thoughts. I'm Terry Weiss and I'm glad you're here today. Let's get at it, Shelley, come on join me. Hey, this time around on the podcast, we're going to talk about how things have changed in just ten years. This time I'm the episode of White Thoughts. So grab your favorite beverage, grab a seat around our virtual campfire, and let's get into it. Hey, everybody, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, one and all. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Terry Weiss and I am overjoyed that you are here and decided to spend some of your valuable time with me today here on Wie Thoughts. I hope this podcast finds you and yours very well and wishing you nothing but success, health and happiness as we get on into this week's episode. But before that, before we get into the episode, want to remind you to go to my website, Wiethoughts dot com. 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Hunh, what a crazy year it's been. What a crazy summer. It's been lots going on. You got fires popping up here and there, you got political things happening all over the spectrum. You've got you know, you've got county fairs going on. You've got oh oh, just all kinds of stuff, you know, record reigns here and there. But there's good things. There's good things my friends in story, you got to try and look for the good in life. I always say, you try your best. I mean, you got to handle what comes your way, obviously, but you want to look for the good if you can in life and just try it and do yourself a favor with that. That's something I'm trying to do it because I'll tell you what. It definitely definitely makes a difference in your attitude. I mean, your attitude determines your altitude, all right, So you can steal that from me, from your old pal Terry weist, your attitude determines your altitude. You can definitely borrow that for me, steal it whatever you want. I don't hold no one no copyrights or anything or on that. So what I want to talk about today on the show, on the program, on the podcast as it were, is wow, how far have we come in just like ten years with technology, with just socially Wow, there's a lot going on. And by the way, if you hear a chair creaking in the background, I do apologize for that. We're going to try and edit that out and post my chair just because of the humidity here in the studio today decides it wants to be creaky, and I didn't oil it up or anything before I decided to record the program for you today. But how far we have come with technology? Huh? Just think about that. I was thinking the other night while I was reading and I was nodding off, you know, dozing off while reading in the evening, and I just started for some reason, this thought popped into my head as Wow, how far have we come in the past ten twenty years. I thought about when me and my wife bought our current home a mere twenty three years ago, we were using dial up internet, you know, and I'm thinking back to what an inconvenience that was. You know, he the wilcome. You know you've got mail, remember that? Remember AOL online folks, or you get the discs at your local electronics stores or you know, retailer. And if God forbid anybody picked up the phone, God forbid anybody picked up the phone while you were on the internet, because you're like, oh, you voted me off the Internet, and you're like, oh, and even with I mean, just how far the internet has just exploded? And some might say to the detriment of society, because the Internet has caused a lot of problems, and I will wholeheartedly agree with that the Internet has definitely caused some issues socially, I think culturally, dare I say as well, where I don't know if we are as dare I say, kind as we can be to one another, tolerant as we can be to one another. And there are some people that, unfortunately, I've gotta say it. I gotta tell it like it is, you know me, I don't. I don't lie to you folks, I don't mince words. Some people, narcissistic people, and dare I say, evil people have used it for nefarious means and continue to do so. And that's a shame, you know, it really is, because the Internet in itself has so much to offer, so many good things, a way to communicate around the world in nanoseconds, nanoseconds we can communicate with each other. However, some of us just like to get on there and be what you know, you call a keyboard warrior, to start bashing people or trolling people, harassing people, dare I say, as well, amongst other things. And it's sad, really, it really is sad because I think there's so much more potential in the Internet and not just like streaming and playing video games and chat rooms and video conference calling, and you know audio and movie production and audio and video production, you know, audio production, what we're doing right now, you know, the ability to consume content or find content, find knowledge. Okay, finding knowledge is much simpler now than when I was a youngster in growing up, because I'll tell you, I had to go to the library if I wanted to find something or learn it in school or a trade school or some type of college, or from my friends, you know, and hopefully they weren't, you know, dufuses. And there's so much opportunity that is available to us in this modern age. In just the past decade, just with the Internet alone, in the past decades, so much has become available to us. And like the human species can do, some of us just go right off the path and go out and branch out into things it was never intended for, you know, pornography, you know, I mean, dare I say you used to have to go to certain sections of the s and certain shops to if you were indulging in that sort of thing. Now it's all readily available at your fingertips on the internet, you know, and you know, It's a shame, really, it really is a shame that more positivity can't be gleaned or gleaned from the Internet. You know, you can learn anything you want nowadays remotely. You can sign up for college, you can learn trades and skills, and you know how to cook and home repair, you name it, you can learn it on the internet. You can research archives of history, literature, all kinds of things. And this is all like in the past, you know, ten to twenty years, my friends. I mean it just a knowledge has exploded. Now. Parts of me wonder have we leapt ahead too quickly without really, you know, knowing the waters. We're wading into the depth of them and the ramifications, and I don't know. I guess only history will be the forebearer or the teller of that if we were indeed, you know, wading into uncharted waters without any any caution or anything. You know. It's it's amazing because again I see so much positivity and positive potential for the Internet. I've learned so much just even in my music career, my trade, my hobbies, knowledge wise, cooking, ete reading. You know, the ability to shop online and not have to leave the house if you don't want to the research you can do on certain products, subjects of all types. And yet again we have again certain segments of the human population that want to use this for you know, bad things, you know, doing harm to others, shaming others, mentally abusing, physically abusing others, what have you. And I wonder if it's just maybe not too much information overload for us at this point in history. Maybe you know, things need to slow down a little bit. But I don't think that's going to happen, my friends. I don't think that the Internet is going to slow down anytime soon. And the technology, you know, now we've got artificial intelligence out there, and that's really ramping up. There's lots of things they're doing with AI. And I hope, I hope, and I pray it isn't like James Cameron tried to warn us about in the Terminator movies. For those of you that may not have seen The Terminator, look it up. It's really easy on your Internet. I hope that doesn't come to fruition, where you know, artificial intelligence gets so self aware that it decides, hey, the human race, Yeah, we don't need the human race anymore. Man. They're they're they're not worth it. Hopefully that will never happen, and we kind of cause the our own demise. I hope it doesn't happen. The other things too. Medically, medical technology in the past ten to twenty years, on a positive note, that has grown exponentially as well. You know, the advances they're making in chronic diseases and treatments. Things we're learning about health, things we're learning about our own bodies and the world around us. Medically, that's that's a great thing, a great for us to have, and but I guess part of me is still disheartened at the social aspect of the technology and the where we've come in the past, especially like the past ten years. I think, sadly, if you want to look at it like the glass is half empty, I think socially we've got a long way to go. We've got a long way to go. Socially, I think we've in many parts of our minds excuse me, and socially as a species, I think we've regressed a bit. I really do mean, just on how we treat each other, how polite we can can be to each other. It seems like, especially the United States, is really woefully divided. I mean, if dare I say anything political here on the podcast, but you know, you've got major factions of people that don't really want to talk to each other. They have their set ideas and that's it. They're not willing to really for the most part. Excuse me, pardon me. The sniffles, and it is a little bit of an allergy day today. I apologize for the noise, as it were. Back to what I was saying, it seems like a good portion of the population doesn't want to sit down and have an honest discussion with the other side and just really have a calm exchange of ideas, exchange of philosophies, exchange of points of view, as it were, without ramping it up into childish name calling. I mean, this is where we've at least where we're at in the United States, and I've seen some other places around the world that it's the kind of the same thing as well. The go to thing is violence, people screaming, yelling and violence. And we're supposed to be better than that. We're supposed to be the highest on the food chain here. Okay, I mean I don't think animals per se, you know, I don't think one tiger looks and walks by another tiger and says, I just don't like the way they look and the way they're walking, so I'm going to attack them. No. Usually animals have ingrained into their DNA. They're defending either their their territory, their food source, or their families. It isn't you know, there's nothing political about animal the animal kingdom or the insect kingdom. There's nothing, uh, you know, derogatory as far as why they would attack and just kill in discriminately with their species or others of their ilk based on a feeling or how that a mood or you know, I mean, you know, a fox just doesn't lose it shit one day and just go out and start, you know, killing, unless it has like rabies or something like that. But what I'm saying is that they're while there's social animals too in a certain extent in nature, okay, and built into their day and their programming, they just don't develop that hatred and animosity like the Homo sapiens the human species does. You know, human beings, we're the only ones that kill indiscriminately for either through mental breaks or over ideas. We have gone to war over ideas and that, and I'm just wondering, why, why, in the twenty first century, why haven't we evolved further and become more enlightened to work out our problems in a more productive manner. I mean, we got a Ukraine war that's raging on well over a year now because it seems like one country wanted to invade another based on ideas that they think it's their territory, what have you, and it it just it can be disheartening, it really can. But then I look around and I take walks in nature and I advise, you know, I implore you would advise if you're able to, depending on where you're listening to the podcast today in the world, if you have the ability to go outside and just to spend fifteen twenty thirty minutes out in nature, take a leisurely walk and just breathe in the air, look around, be aware, be present in the moment where you're at. Hey, I think that might be a great thing to do. I find it helps me. It helps me clear out you know, the cobwebs, cle clear out the frustration and what have you, And I really enjoy it. I find it mentally beneficial as well as physically beneficial. But we've come so far in just the past ten to twenty years. While we've made so much on the surface progress, but I think as far as us as a species, as human beings intellectually, philosophically, socially, I think in many areas we've regressed to more basic, bare animal instincts. And again, this is just my opinion. I don't have any kind of scientific, factual evidence to back this up, but I just wanted to talk to you today about this and get your thoughts on it, and please, you know, go to the website wise thoughts dot com or on your podcast provider if it allows. I know Spotify does they allow you to leave comments on shows, or you can email me mail m ail mail at wie thoughts dot com. If you want to reach out to me by email and continue the discussion. We can also do it on Twitter or better known as x now at Terry Weiss if you want to comment on this program and start a conversation there and say, hey, Terry, I agree with you, or Terry, I don't agree with you in this point or this aspect. But I guess what I would implore What I would ask maybe for you to try to do here, you know, over the coming week, is just maybe when you have some quiet downtime, just think about that. Think about where we've come in the past twenty or even ten years, the advancements we've made in the world, all the advancements you see, and all the new cable channels, all the new this, all the new that, the new technology, the science and the and everything. And then take that internalize a little bit and think, all right, while those are all physical things and etc. What about as a species? What about as human beings and things of that nature? Have we kept our fiduciary duty, our responsibility as human beings while we're advancing in all these technological and social ideas, etc. While we've advanced so far with that at our basic core as people, at our basic core as human beings, are we being more aware, more empathetic, more sympathetic to our fellow man and holding those in our society that our evil or would choose to do evil or things of that nature? Are we holding them accountable? Not letting people get away with hurting each other socially, economically, physically, mentally? What have you? Are we taking all that and all those things into account. Let me know what you think on the podcast. I welcome your feedback. I would look forward to it. And again, like I always tell you my friends, you know, to be a change in the world and to see that, you have to be the change in the world that you see every day. Okay, it all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning when you get up. Just remember I want you to be kind to yourselves, be kind to others, and go out and have a great day. Until next time when we gather around the virtual camp fire. It's Terry Wise saying thank you for spending your time with me today and I look forward to talking with you again real soon. Take care as group and sulus Asso