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BUDDY GUY REMEMBERS A TIME WHEN LIFE WAS SIMPLER AND CYBER-FREE
By BUDDY GUY Daily Splash columnist July 29, 2012 10:24PM

When I was growing up in Lettsworth, La., my parents didn’t have a lock on our house. When my daddy got his first car, we never even took the key out the ignition. In Lettsworth, you couldn’t pay anybody to steal that car or go into your house if you weren’t home.

What a difference a day makes. Back then, we had honest-to-God respect for one another. We wasn’t killin’ people because we were mad about the way we lived. When I was growin’ up, I’d eat a boiled white potato for dinner four or five times a week until I got big enough to go catch a fish. Today, they call that poverty. I just called it life, and today I don’t feel angry about that life.

This economy is hurtin’ everybody bad enough, so why hurt each other? Why does everyone have to be so angry? If you ask me, we need to stop blaming each other and point the finger at technology. Robots build our cars. Computers drive our trains. We got military aircrafts in Afghanistan with the pilots in California. Take away the jobs and you take away the humanity, and that’s where you gonna find the source of all that anger.

When I go out on stage, I know there’s bound to be somebody in that audience who’s mad, but if I can make them smile and forget about their anger for a while, that’s all I need. You can pick it up when you leave. Find something that makes you happy and hold on to it, man, ’cause that’s the difference a day makes.

Buddy Guy donated his fee for writing this column to CeaseFire Chicago, ceasefirechicago.org.

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/splash/14019466-418/buddy-guy-remembers-a-time-when-life-was-simpler-and-cyber-free.html

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