Rabbits Against Magic by Jonathan Lemon for February 18, 2024

Not all of us have lost all of those things. Some of us aren’t even on Facebook – imagine that! And I still send a lot of birthday cards out…

The internet kind of depends on a lack of critical thinking.

I feel some of those have been enhanced (I know several couples who met online and have been together happily for years), an others are no great loss.

Modesty, politeness, tolerance. That’s what I‘m missing most.

I don’t believe we’ve LOST those things. They’ve become modified, and a lot of things are now exposed that were long hidden or dormant.

What we’ve lost is the ability to tolerate trolls, loons,nuts and wack jobs!

Sitting behind a keyboard, somehow, gives us more daring moves we normally wouldn’t make!

Sending a Venmo birthday card with money still works.

Mr. Wiggly: He’s in the 1st panel & in the last panel. In the 1st panel, he is reading the same book as Trixie, only smaller. In the last panel, he stopped reading it because it was too depressing.

And classified ads, newspapers and real journalism.

Some of those things were vanishing because of computerization even before the Internet was well established. The Brooklyn Public Library was eliminating card catalogs in the 1980s. The Rolodex began to give way to Palm Pilots and BlackBerry phones even before those were Internet enabled. TV Guide was losing its relevance as cable and satellite systems brought in so many channels that a printed magazine didn’t have room to list and synopsize all the content.

And I pretty much gave up on handwriting—mine was always terrible—when I acquired my first manual typewriter in college around 1970.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

You need the internet to get an ebook, but you don’t need it to read an ebook.

Perfect!

Use it, don’t abuse it.

I didn’t finish reading this comic. I became distracted by a cat video

You forgot newspapers. Anybody remember those?