I think it's computers we have to fear, not mentally unfit people. Ever noticed the increasing numbers of people staring at their mobiles? Like they have to? Seriously, I've witnessed some absurd scenes in past years.
Invasion of the mobile zombie people.
This s*** is aobut to get real though. It's straight front and center. Can't avoid it. When half the people on your work crew are staring at the mobile and this is hte last place people should be doing that, you know aliens are involved.
Ray Bradbury was onto this at least 60 years ago. It started with phones and radios and esp. portable radios. The martians might have been involved, but Bradubry never entertained the idea. He just blamed apathy.
Here's example (the quote is circa 1960):
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ray_Bradbury
Quote:
On another occasion, Bradbury observed that the novel touches on the alienation of people by media:
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap opera cries, sleep walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction.[46]
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