Pip Pip

Apparently, Israelis are today in the process of being excommunicated for a most heinous sin: I receieved an SMS late last night from an Israeli friend warning me not to use my cellphone today because it is Consumer Excommunication Day. Strong words indeed. Clearly yet another attempt to overthrow the evil conglomerates who have the gall to charge us up to the eyeballs for the basic right to communicate through radioactive boxes. Nice idea!-power to the street blah blah blah. In practice, completely impossible.

I'm all for lessening dependence on mobile phones. Especially my mobile phone, which has acquired a limb-like status over the years in terms of usage. I'm not even opposed to placing limitations on certain commodities for the sake of one's health or sanity: giving up chocolate, for example, has been not as tortuous as I might have presumed; thankfully there are other sweet things to eat. Unfortunately I can't wake myself up in the morning, make arrangements, or call ahead to say I'm running late with a Yam.

Anyway, last I checked, nobody on either side of the city seems to be paying any attention to the threat of being excommunicated. So maybe we'll all be shipped off to Coventry in due course together? Go Co-existence!