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Next t ime you ' re tear ing the house apar t look ing for the Freedom phone,remember, there was a t ime before the cord less wor ld when everyth ing wasconnected - when a l l c i rcu i ts ran together and people were phys ica[y l inkedto the i r consumer e lect ronic dev ices. But those days are long gone and wehave w i l l i ng l y a l l owed ou rse l ves to be t rapped w i th in a deb i l i t a t i ng web o frad io waves , l ase r beams , and m ic rowave t ransmiss ions . Th i s d i sas t rouspredicament was shoved down our throats by a major po l i t ica l /manufa{ur ingconspi racy a imed at e f fect ing the reverse engineer ing of that por t ion of ourb ra in respons ib le fo r t he a l l - impor tan t co rne rs tone o f wes te rn c i v i l i za t i ont h e i l l u s i o n o f f r e e w i l I .Th i s f ounda t ion o f modern l i f e i s be ing e roded in a d iabo l i ca l andi r revers ib le manner . Convinced that remote-contro l dev ices create an expandedfreedom of choice, we are s lowly d is tanc ing ourselves f rom our consumerelect ronic exper ience, no longer reaching to our machines and changingchanne ls , t r ack ing reco rd cu ts r o r t u rn ing o f f l i gh ts . As resu l t we a rebecoming v i c t ims o f a se l f - i nduced soc ia l l obo tomy .

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