There was a nice video clip distributed around about how in America they’re deploying video conference solutions to the nursing homes so the habitants could have virtual visitors. The clip shows a grandma having her grand daughter and grand-grand children as virtual visitors on her birthday. They’re virtual cause they live a 3 hour trip away.
First of all, nursing homes are the places where you but your parents when they “stick around for too long”. Secondly, it’s a great idea for daily communication but it’s her birthday, how hard is it to take a 3 hour trip once in a year? All I think about is that in capitalistic world you loose all your humanity in the end. You just spin around some fake values ($…) and forget the really important stuff in life – the people around you. I mean the real people, who are up for you, not the things you’ve got. Some would say, give them a break, they did make a virtual visit. Nope! This is cheap way of making the guilt a bit smaller and thats selfish.
As a friend of mine once said: “There is nothing I’m afraid more than dying alone”.
Think about it…
