SMH readers are undeserving of life Cut & Paste draws attention to this extraordinary stream of consciousness from Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly: OF course a phone is not a phone. That is a total misnomer. Making calls is for pussies. A phone is GPS, bank manager, social club, weather-cock and high-speed carrier pigeon in one. Hardly surprising that we see our phones as quasi-sacred objects. Arguably if humanity is to save itself - unlikely and undeserved as this might seem - it will be via some form of emergence. Such a scenario, in which humans, like slime mould, learn to act in many-headed unison, would likely give the phone a crucial, enabling part. Which only makes it more remiss that no such tickable box has yet made it on to the customs form. The style and scattiness of thought is one thing. But particularly significant and a la mode among modern Leftists is the casual contempt for humanity: "Arguably if humanity is to save itself - unlikely and undeserved as this might seem..." Is it her own life that's not worth saving? Or just the lives of the mob?