Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of my favorite animes ever, which I have a complicated relationship with.
It had a particular episode, "The Phone That Never Rings".
I found that to be a poetic and poignant concept when younger--a mobile phone that never rings, much lonely, so isolation--but like many things in my jaded early-thirysomethings, I see it less favorably, and think they got it wrong.
They did not account for spam.
Even the world's loneliest, most miserable bastard will still get spam.
Because I know I do.
It doesn't happen exclusively by a phone call, although that does happen plenty, from all sorts of area codes and sometimes international numbers.
The latest and most insidious way it happens is via text, through I never win anything) or thanks me for paying a bill (I know bills suck, but I don't pay bills...daily?), and asks me to click on a link.
I was upset enough recently by the frequency of this spam to search and find an official FTC number to forward text spam to, 7726.
Like my faith in voting and my purpose on this dying rock, I don't know if it means anything or makes a difference, but I sure hope it does.
Because trying something is better than doing (and ultimately being) nothing, right?