B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 02, 2024

…in the wrong time. Period.

One time I was 31 seconds old altogether.

Very true prediction.

Problem is, everything I subscribe (free) to wants to send me an alert when something happens. I always click no but some do because they think they should.

Poor babies. No idea what’s real and what isn’t anymore.

Before that it was newspapers, see today’s Fred Basset…….

And they spend half their time on social media posting pictures of remote cabins claiming that would be paradise while waiting on their half-caf strawberry mocha pumpkin spice expresso… Like they could survive without WiFi and Starbucks

A race of people so self centered they don’t have children will end rather abruptly.

My girlfriend

Cell phones?

I grew up in the 60s. SO much better than all this tech crap, most of which is a time waster. The art of real person-to-person communication is lost, as it the art of conversation.

A bunch of phoney peoples eh.

Speaking of being in the wrong time period, would people living in the stone age even know what a cell phone is?

Would stone age people even know what a ‘land line’ is?

When I was a kid, every school was 10 miles up hill each way in a snowstorm.

I lived in Brooklyn in the 1950s. I did the math. There were 300 children on our block and we all played out in the street. That was a lot of “in-your-face” humanity. You learned how to play nice or you didn’t play at all.

That was when a piece of discarded clothes line or a rubber ball and a mop handle could keep gangs of kids busy all day.

So I started to learn how to get along with others from about age 4.

In his Robot series of novels (The Naked Sun), Isaac Asimov had a culture that lived on the world of Solaria. These people were isolationists to the extreme. They avoided human contact at all costs and resorted to “viewing.” Asimov didn’t call it Zoom or WhatsApp or whatever. The book was published in the 1950s.

We are becoming Solarians. We do not interact with each other; we “interface” with one another through electronic proxies.

We’re aborting more babies than ever before. There will be no population explosion when we treat life so callously.

Also talking about “going off the grid”. I come from agricultural ancestors who waited decades to get on the grid.

And, this early Grigori Rasputin ancestor said, "This rock, upon which I sit, will become the killing fields center for someone named Stalin. And will partner with a country called U.S.A. to create the basis of their economy, “The military-industrial complex.”

I asked my phone about this. And it said “Maybe.”

Prediction verified.

I’m starting to miss the days when phones were just made for calling.

30 seconds is a long time if you are holding your breath!!!1

Brain/Internet devices are still in our future.

(And possibly always will be.)