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Cultural Decadence Corner! |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
Rants
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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The history of consumer electronics is littered with failed
gadgets, crazy inventors, and breathtakingly bad ideas. Then there's the
iShave. I'm not saying these two sentences have anything to do with one
another; they just happen to be adjacent.
 I know I'm prone to a certain cultural paranoia, but it's
times like this when I think Western Civilization is essentially doomed.
Clearly, we have far too much leisure time on our hands. If there are
benchmarks for the terminal decadence of a society, I have to think that the
iShave should be slotted in there somewhere. Think of the great cultures of the
past -- the Greeks gave us philosophy, the Persians essentially invented
advanced mathematics from the ground up, and here we are ... pushing the envelope
of personal grooming technology. One last thing -- please, businesspeople, stop
putting that little "i" in front of everything. It's supposed to
indicate some sort of Internet connectivity, you know. And if your personal
back shaver is indeed Internet-ready, I don't want to know.
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