Fear not

For the latest smartphone is due to be released!  Why worry about the erosion of liberties and freedoms, the decline of Western Civilization, the crumbling of the American dream, genocides, global starvation, the emergence of non-democratic Superpowers, the naked assaults on religious liberty, and the collapse of basic human decency and morality?  Indeed, why care when we can all rest easy knowing that the latest smart phone is even bigger and smarter than the last?  And beyond that, it will be completely obsolete in 6 months!  Do you hear that noise?  That's the ghosts of medieval peasants laughing at us.