latest smartphone is due to be released<\/a>!\u00a0 Why worry about the erosion of liberties and freedoms, the decline of Western Civilization, the crumbling of the American dream, genocides, global starvation, the emergence of non-democratic Superpowers, the naked assaults on religious liberty, and the collapse of basic human decency and morality?\u00a0 Indeed, why care when we can all rest easy\u00a0knowing that the latest smart phone is even bigger and smarter than the last?\u00a0 And beyond that, it will be completely obsolete in 6 months!\u00a0 Do you hear that noise?\u00a0 That\u2019s the ghosts of medieval peasants laughing at us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the latest smartphone is due to be released!\u00a0 Why worry about the erosion of liberties and freedoms, the decline of Western Civilization, the crumbling of the American dream, genocides, global starvation, the emergence of non-democratic Superpowers, the naked assaults on religious liberty, and the collapse of basic human decency and morality?\u00a0 Indeed, why care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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