Technology Has Gone Too Far

At a time when we have just learned that high-ups in the Security and Exchange Commission spent hours online watching porn as our financial system was going down the tube, I have just read that Playboy will soon publish a 3-D centerfold. I am sorry, this was too good to pass over.

Just think about it.

The purpose of 3-D is to make things loom towards you. Now, don’t force me to get too graphic here. Use your imagination, unless you are Baptist, and then, just miss the point. Oops, sorry about that.

The Scandinavians warned that our repressive regard for nudity and sexuality had fostered an unnatural approach to the subject. Yet, some 40 or so years following our “seventies revolution,” we still seem to be very preoccupied with the subject. And now, it will come toward us in three-dimensions.

Shouldn’t we use our technology for a loftier purpose?

With the failure of the “dome” designed to seal off the ruptured oil well in the Gulf and the inability to accurately pinpoint exact incidences of tornadic winds, you would think that technology has avenues of challenge that would warrant exploration.

By the way, following all the missteps in Iraq, which had their imprint of involvement, I was surprised to find that Halliburton had their fingers in the Gulf oil disaster. Is there any aspect of our lives immune to their abuse? Will other things soon “point” to their involvement? Again, I apologize, but I didn’t make all this up.

But, back to the concept of a 3-D centerfold.

Does this mean that eventually, as economies falter, august institutions like the Louvre will utilize such technology to increase foot traffic?

Consider the Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le peuple, with this scientific advance. The “Mona Lisa” could pale in comparison.

Of course, since most of the their treasures are already in three-dimensional form, Greece will have to rely on Angela Merkel and her peers. She has had some experience with cleavage.