Imagine there's no heaven.
Imagine there's just the purgatory of Earth, where cheap thrills and pain are distributed in distinctly unequal measures.
Imagine, too, that some of these cheap thrills and pain are created by humans who sneer at other humans for their gadget choices[1].
Yes, still.
I was oddly moved, you see, by a plaintive cry from the Android[2] wilderness published in Android Central[3].
Jeramy Johnson has had enough. He's had enough with his family members. He's had enough with his friends. Well, some of them.
It seems they bathe in an elitist snobbery that incites them to mock his Android proclivities, because they all have iPhones. It seems Johnson has veered away from Apple toward Android and is now paying a troubling price.
"My Apple 'family' just looks at me a little differently now." he said. "I don't mean to say that they are outright rude or offensive, but there is definitely an air of superiority in their questions or comments about my daily carry choices."
Some might say that taking on an air of superiority about someone's phone choice is most definitely rude and offensive. And ignorant. And plain inhuman. And, apparently, still widespread.
Johnson writes of "the not-so-subtle eye-rolling and even outright disdain that many iPhone users have for Android fans."
I fear he's mad as hell and he isn't going to take this any more. I judge this from his words: "And you know what? It sucks. It's unfair. And I'm sick of it."
Fairness so rarely plays as decisive a role as sickness these days. We don't expect the world to be fair, nor anyone who lives in it.
Why, even my neighborhood raccoons used to like a