Huh?

A long time ago, when I was but a youth, there were no such things as computers. They were being considered and perhaps a few were invented for testing purposes but nothing compared to what we have now. Studying, reading, homework, recipes, finding definitions all had to be done via text be that a book or a magazine. TV’s were pretty much black and white with the accompanying antennae on the roof and a line run from roof through a wall or window to that little box sitting on a table in the living room. No cable, no streaming, no jpegs or Adobe LIghtroom. We went outside. We played all types of active games and sport. Touch football or a pickup baseball game was great fun. Then came, of all nifty inventions, color TV! Talk about a shock to the system! Right in front of you, in your living room were people speaking and cavorting in color!

My, how things have changed. Now people who shouldn’t be fat are fat. Exercise is at a gym. Everyone is on a cell phone. Except me. I have a cell phone because I have to. Have you noticed that there are no more public telephones anywhere? Why is that? To make your lives easier? I doubt that in the extreme. Rather, there are no public telephones so that someone can track you and where you are and what you might be doing. Paranoia? Think again. Tracking everyone is a wealth producer for those overlords in tech. A dossier on each and every one of you . . . for the future.

Then we look at the mental maladies that have arisen. Attention deficit disorder and on and on. More and more medications sold as a remedy but there was none of this back last century. They like to tell you there was but there wasn’t. I was there and it was non-existent. There are always young people with problems but those were few and far between. Discipline was used as needed for these and most of them that I kept track of grew up and led productive lives. No meds.

Look at this “computer age.” We now have more problems than ever before. Porn used to be a few magazines or what were then called, “smokers.” To glimpse a “smoker” you had to know someone and that wasn’t an easy thing to do because morality was in high fashion back then. If you were rude you’d likely get punched in the face or slapped if it was a lady. Women were ladies then and highly respected. Women’s lib came along and that respect quickly dwindled if a woman got in your face.

Call me old fashioned but it was far, far better then. That is the exact same thing my parents told me so I decided we were actually on a slippery slope from the early 1900s to now. That is a steep drop and this is what you are seeing. Those who still cling to sanity understand this. Those who don’t understand this become the problem. You only need to look around and then tell me you like what you are seeing. If you do like it then you are a part of the problem.

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