Date:         Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:20:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: GPS recommendations, handheld & incar?
Comments: To: Dagbear@aol.com
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Thanks for that Rico, I thought I was the only one who thought that GPS was
kinda like sucking your thumb.  :-)

On 9/28/08, Rico Dagastino <Dagbear@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I work in the transportation segment of the retail industry.  Every  day we
> have truck drivers call and ask for directions even though they have the
> latest navigation systems available either in cab or through
> their  dispatchers.
> They need to know where they are and how to get to our  facility.  I have
> not
> been impressed by navigation systems because they  supply a demand created
> by
> the sellers of these devices.  To travel you  need to know where you are
> and
> how to get where you want to go.  A cute  little voice that says, "Turn
> left in
> 200 feet, stupid!" represents just how  much we have fallen victim to
> school
> systems that leave students unable to  understand where they are (in a
> literal
> and metaphorical sense) and how much we  are victims of commercial
> interests
> which tell us what is the latest fashionable  thing we simply "must have".
> Personal choices have become a reflection of our  own images distorted
> through the
> mirror of society's norms and  expectations.  Maybe we have just become
> sheep
> needing the economic  shepherds to tell us what to do. Don't just buy one
> of
> these things because they  are really cool.  Maybe you can find your own
> way
> in life.
>
>
> Rico Dagastino
> Memphis, TN
>
>
>
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