So, well, um ... if you haven't heard, there's quite a bit of buzz going around about our privacy (and not just the privacy of American's, but that of the world).
It's a slight bit unsettling, truthfully, but more importantly it has a tendency to make a person feel outraged, paranoid, and a little bit like you're not in complete control of your life.
(P.S. You are.)
Not just a little off-handedly, I suggested on the Crunchy Betty Facebook page that we should all take three days AWAY from our phones, computers, televisions, gaming consoles, and anything that could collect data on us, perhaps a little out of protest, but a lot out of reconnecting with everything we could be enjoying and appreciating instead. The response was fantastic, but more than that, a deep, burning, integral human need became apparent.
We don't know how to live without our electronics anymore.
Not just, like, for forever. But just for three solitary days.
When the comments of "I could never survive!" came rolling in, I couldn't help but envision a gaggle of dark-suited, vulture-like X-Files-Smoking-Man-esque men hunched around a table, their long, crooked fingers in an upside-down V over their mouths, crooning, "Yes, yes. That's it, little ones. We have you where we want you."
And what began as a half-joking social statement became what we're going to accomplish on the blog over the next two weeks.
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