Mobility leads to idiocy.

One politician is in hot water with feminists for saying," What are the girls missing without mobiles? Did our mothers, sisters......die without mobiles during their time?" This has been interpreted as saying that cell phones should be available only for boys and men to protect girls from going astray. Examples such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab spring, which were facilitated by Twitter, have been cited to show that cell phones are helpful. No one is denying that, although both the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring did not achieve their objectives and can be deemed to have failed. Those of us who had no alternative to government controlled BSNL and MTNL just 20 years back think that cell phones are heaven sent. In those days a call to another city was called a " trunk call " and cost Rs 100/minute. Today a similar call costs Rs 1.50/minute and even the poorest people carry cell phones with them. However, there is no doubt that there are serious problems with the use of cell phones. It is extremely annoying when someone starts talking on a phone in the middle of  a conversation leaving you staring at a wall for half an hour, waiting for the person to finish. In 99.99% of cases the call is entirely trivial and could have waited for a later time, or even for next week. This uncontrollable urge to answer a call is also extremely dangerous. You will see men and women on motor bikes talking on a mobile with one hand while driving with the other or driving along with head on one side with the mobile wedged between head and shoulder. Not only are they poorly balanced but they are oblivious to traffic around them and do not seem to hear warning blasts of car horns. Women are especially in danger from this stupidity. It is usual to see a man talking animatedly on his mobile while driving his motor bike with his wife and baby seated behind. Children are easily distracted and play games on their phones in class. Giving mobiles to children affect their study and bring down their performance. Children are also very affected by pornography which can be accessed from phones. To see how cell phones are destroying human brains all you need to do is travel on a train. Previously people used to read books, newspapers or magazines to while away their time. Today only a handful of people read. You see people hunched over their mobiles playing stupid games or listening to ring tones. At times it seems that the entire carriage is full of monkeys hunched over in their seats. We do not know if evolution goes only forward or whether, given the right circumstances, it can regress. However, logic says that if something moves in one direction it can move backward. There seems a real possibility that cell phones will result in human beings gradually regressing to monkeys. Will the feminists be happy to be sitting in trees talking on mobiles?