Blog #5 Are We the Tracks?

“If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season? But if we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us,” said, Thoreau. This makes perfect sense. I did not live in the era where there were no railroads, but I can imagine how difficult it would be to travel without them.  We should mind our own business and that is half of society’s problem. We are so involved in the newest trends, technology, and other countries problems that if we actually just observed and mind our business this world might be a little different. As far as the railroad rides on us and we do not ride on it, yes! Very True! We let business corporations, the internet, and social media consume us. This reminds of the book Feed. In some aspect just like Titus and the rest of the crew, we are being processed certain information all the time.  We continue to let big business make trillions of dollars. We continue to let the internet pop-up advertisements. We continue to let twitter and Facebook distract us and consume valuable hours.

 So yes! The railroad rides all over our bodies because at the end of the day we do nothing but to continue to lay more tracks for business corporations to keep making money, for the internet to keep selling us products, and for social networks to advance and continue to steal time away from us.