O2 have also announced a PAYG iPhone (Probably offloading the old model). No prices yet.

Greed & Fear, like its cousins anger & guilt, male & female, cruelty & subtlety and other dalliances of life, has only one aim and that is to take you round-the-bend in an ever increasing circle that leads to nowhere other than the continuation of the same. Whether it is right or wrong, to have no true direction can be either a teacher or a master. It’s a teacher when you can witness and your master when you react. “Man, gottas have thaz fone”.

Modern technology, because humans have no real meaning for existing which is why they have to go to Mars, say, or have the need to fathom the depths of any nonsense that “mystifies”, is a real distractant. Just looking at these unending but destructive offerings which, in utility terms, is no different from what went before. As the hooker gets a bit longer-in-the-tooth, more effort is needed to attract. The point is not whether TD&H should dally unimpeded, which they should be allowed to for “allowance” is a relative term as well being a teacher [if you dare open your eyes]. The point is balance-for-sanity should not be allowed to be buried just because destruction is normal when construction is absent. The idiotic and lunatic are who they are for sanity does not check on the bacteria count of its dustbin but when the rubbish threatens to cover all through perfumery, especially the naïve and ignorant, the “bystanders”/collateral tree-stumps, it must be exposed. 

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna [the “Father” of Christ] remarked that, “Who are you killing when they are actually dead?” You cannot be more dead when you play with something that seeks to create death to one’s Joy. Emotional, Material & Intellectual “joys” are “dead-joys”. There is no life in it other than being mere addictions/hypocrisy and being addicted to hypocrisy is a second order condition. It has momentum.