Cellphone Numbers: Technological True Names

For those of you unfa­mil­iar with the con­cept of a true name, basi­cally, if you knew the true name of a spirit you could use it to invoke said spirit and have power over said spirit. An exam­ple you may rec­og­nize is that of Beetlejuice, say­ing the name “Beetlejuice” thrice invoked him or dis­missed him and so on and so forth.

It occured to me recently that a cell­phone num­ber is very much con­cep­tu­ally akin to the mys­ti­cal con­cept of a true name. If you have someone’s cell­phone num­ber you can call them any­where and the­o­ret­i­cally invoke them as well. You are granted power over an indi­vid­ual by being able to con­tact them at any time. Also, just as with sum­moned demons, if you invoke peo­ple for stu­pid rea­sons they will take it out on you.

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