greg gerritt
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Every time I read one of these articles I am even happier I do not carry a phone. I have a computer and phone at home and at the offfice. The rest of the time to track me you have to actually see me. Maybe it is because when I was young and hitchhiked for a year and thought a lot about folks 100 years before who left home and might never been heard from again, and definitely could not be tracked by the government. And had really good lives. In 1976 my mother got used to hearing from me once a month or so when I found a payphone in the mountains. And for me that was plenty often. My wife is used to me not having a phone. But she knows when i say I will be someplace, I am always on time. (That probably relates to the fact that when Iused to hitchhike to work I was always, and I mean always, on time, and now I walk everywhere all across the city and since I know how long it takes to walk across the city I am never late for work or meetings, or anything else)

I sort of consider myself a luddite, always a bit slow to accept new technologies, though I use compters every day, have a blog for my writing, and a youtube channel for my nature videos, but as a revolutionary non violently opposing the war machine of my government and the crazy policies on everything else, carrying a gps unit in my pocket so the killer drones can find me easier, NO WAY.

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