The tyranny of technology leads to insanity – it’s a proven fact and explains why I turn to religion as a balm for the psychological wounds inflicted by my malevolent MacBook Pro and impish, insolent, indolent iPad.
They have ganged up on me. I am not paranoid but I know they are out to get me. I cannot send out bulk emails on Gmail using the iPad. I can send out bulk emails on Outlook. I cannot edit the bulk mailing list on an iPad. A recent software “upgrade” won’t allow me to highlight phrases to insert a link or change to italics. It seems logical to switch to using only the Mac. It would be so cleansing to drop the iPad in a basin of water then transfer it to the freezer before committing it to a black bin liner and oblivion as land-fill. Its plaintive cries will fall on deaf ears.
I don’t know how to download and insert pictures on a Mac. The iPad shares pictures with my ‘phone but leaves the Mac out. The Mac is inconveniently large to take travelling. It should be like having a valet and a butler but it’s like living with two rabid dogs intent on destroying me.
This is where the balm of religion comes in. Turn to St Isidore, Bishop of Seville in the 7th century and patron saint of technology and the internet. Impure thoughts can be propagated on the internet but this prayer banishes them.
Almighty and eternal God, who created us in Thy image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
Grant we beseech Thee that through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee, and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter.
Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
I am always encouraged that the author does not hide his lamp under a bushel and is unashamed to write about the Christian faith. In a much secularised western society any mention of Christianity can often produce some very negative vibrations.
As a complete technophobic I can offer no solutions to the problems he has been encountering, however I thought the use of two devices would have helped mitigate any potential problems. After all, that was the practice employed by the prophet Moses, as we read in Exodus ‘Moses took the two tablets and went up the mountain’.