Today's Tids Issue 4,471
Loving nostalgia, but...
Oop’s, I have nothing
to say
This week’s opening day.
No political screams
No conspiracy schemes.
About Dems who are red,
Or Prez tweets I dread.
My mind’s just meandering
Avoiding ugly slandering
Today I’m humanizing.
Instead of demonizing.
Yay! A good day,
With nothing to say
A national advice columnist received
a letter from a woman who feels trapped…in a future world sorta way. The woman
works at home, in a very “smart” home. And, her husband can control everything
from his phone in his office miles away. He tracks her energy consumption and
alters lights and even opens and closes the skylight. He sees everything that
goes in and out of doors. And one day he texted her that she shouldn’t be
running the clothes dryer “during certain peak hours”, and then he turned off
the dryer. And some say the future is going to be just dandy. Gadzooks. Privacy
is one of the two or three most important aspects of comfortable living. Right?
Then why do I bare my soul to all of your in this daily mess of typos? Because
I’m just another insufferable human being.
I’m going to try
to be more sufferable.
Of course,
the specific problem above is the personality defects of a controlling spouse.
Which just says that all of this new whiz-bang technology in the wrong hands
will be debilitating. Like telling the government and corporations everything
about yourself.
In those days when most people
thought that God was always watching, more of the population seemed to try to
do the right thing. Now that big brotherism appears to be creeping in, people
are becoming really scared about doing anything, including walking down the
street and smiling at the wrong person.
“I don’t know what weapons
will be used to fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
--Albert Einstein
The Question:
What is the difference between Utopian and
Dystopian?
The Headlines:
--Congress Returns: Guns, Rush To Stop Shutdown,
Trade Deals (Mex, Can)< Prescription Drug Prices And Investigation Head
Agenda.
--US Stock Markets Expected To Open Higher; Moody’s
Says They See No Recessions, But Don’t Like Odds For No Recession In Future.
--North Bahaman Islanders Sees Nowhere To Go; Gabrielle
Could be next Atlantic Hurricane.
--China Beginning To feel Pain rom Trade War: Apple Facing
Prospects Of Big Price Increases As Tariffs Strangle Production Costs.
--Alibaba Enters Unknown Territory As Chairman Founder
Jack Ma Steps Aside.
--Many Repubs Happy meeting With Ruthless Taliban
Was Cancelled.
--NFL Season Opens To Packed Houses; Disappointment
And Exultation.
--Red Sox Fire President Dombrowski.
Do you know what is scary? The
idea that an airplane mechanic can sabotage an airliner. Thant’s what’s scary.
Curiosity killed the computer.
As in, “I-wonder-what-that-friendly-appearing email- from-someone-I-don’t-know
is all about?”
Get this:
Clemson, the number 1 college football team in the country beat Texas A&M
on Saturday 24-10. And it wasn’t that close. Football analysts are saying that
A&M was the only tough game on Clemson’s schedule. So, that means TV will
be showing bad #1 team games for the rest of the season. Something is wrong in
Collegeville.
“In the year 3000
everything will be instant…but the DMV will still take nine f—ing seconds.”
--Dane Clark
As a working stiff
I would plan my business trips based on what movies were in theaters. If I were
still plugging along today, I doubt if I could find enough good movies playing
to get me out of the office to make a living.
I’m pretty certain
that in the future more people will be severely injured by some cybermugger
than by some petty thug coming out of an alley.
The real key to the election for Repubs
is that Trump needs a lot more votes than his truly loyal base and must find a way
to stop Repubs jumping upon that fence of uncertainty. Obscuring problems with rhetoric
only serves to hinder solutions.
People a lot more
knowledgeable than I are saying total the real cause of the pain killer
overdose death epidemic is illegal fentanyl, not FDA approved opiates.
I suspect that very few
Americans have any clue about what really goes on in professional college
football.
I always believed that words
couldn’t hurt you until my wife threw a dictionary at my head.
How to create a successful
socialist country? You hire lots of advertising and Public Relations people to
convince the populace that they love being harnessed – unable to choose what they
enjoy eating, how they play and in what they live.
If I was a citizen of Narragansett RI,
I would be asking questions about exactly what is going on about their Town Council’s
secretive, no-bid sale of the building voted to be the new Library by 68% of
the public.
One thing you can probably count on
in the future -- you will be paying more for everything. Hotels only charge
extravagantly for mini-bar items to help you get used to it. I don’t know much,
but I know I don’t like what I read between the lines.
I don’t like the idea
of defining people by their politics.
Back when I first became enamored
with classical music from listening to the various themes on the Lone Ranger
radio program, I read critics who were saying that Tchaikovsky wasn’t that
great because he was too loud. But I have to tell you, I just listened to his
first symphony, and I think it is as good as any by any master. Old Tchai wrote
some amazingly beautiful themes. But, what do I now, I’m just a guy with ears.
“What Orwell failed to predict
was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves…and the biggest fear would be that
nobody was watching.”
The Answer:
Utopian describes a society that is conceived to be
perfect. Dystopian is the 180-degree opposite, describing an imagined society
that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. Like 1984” or a spouse
that can control everything you can do with a smart phone. How smart is that.
Several knowledgeable
International Observers say the Hong Kong protestors are walking upon that fine
edge between staying vocal and back off a bit. The world may forget at times as
China appears to love the fruits of capitalism, that they are still a controlling
communist country. And they don’t like embarrassment
from freedom believing citizens. When they are pushed too far they become irritable,
react,,. and it has never been pretty. You don’t have to imagine a dehumanizing
society when you have countries like China and other ultimate socialist states.
So some are advising Hong Kong people to back off, but not opt quit.
There’s no future
in living in the past.
Woody Allen
wanted to know why our days are numbered instead of lettered.
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