Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 18, 2023

And you’re one of the people behaving stupidly, Cranky…

True.

They don’t make them like Crankshaft anymore. Here is a guy who was a minor league baseball player, landed at Normandy beach, school bus driver, teaches English to the illiterate – (giving back since he was illiterate for most of his life), helped deliver his great grandson. I would think that was a full life and a hard act to follow.

They’re not making people like they used to. Low expectations create low outcomes. It starts in the schools.

Okay, Ralf. Straighten your fake mustache, go get a chocolate malted and play your Bunny Bummington depression era music.

The Gods of the Copy Book Headings are stalking us.

I dont think there are more stupid people than there used to be

I think with 24 hour news and the internet, we are more aware of how many there are

you weren’t paying attention.

Ed makes a very valid point.

These guys hang out with Crankshaft for crying out loud!

Remember they were raised by your generation or by the generation you raised.So yes it starts with the parents.

Oh, they probably did. But maybe not so overtly.

Yep, they’re not making people like they used to. Human 2.0 is optimized from birth to have a short attention span, to demand constant stimulation, to accept without question anything presented on a screen, to get angry on command, to buy what they’re told to buy, and to accept illusion and entertainment over reality and actual accomplishment (as conservative writer Ross Douthat put it, “After Apollo, we have entered into decadence”; who needs to actually go back to the moon when Disney can provide a far more entertaining simulation?). We are being conditioned to be obedient laborers and voracious consumers. The perfect Human 2.0 will finish his/her 14-hour day of minimum-wage work, go home, stare into screens and order more junk he/she can’t afford and doesn’t have time to use anyway. Welcome to the future.

Chill!

“…they’re not making people like they used to…”

Artificial insemination is all the rage.

The “new” people around here think they are the only ones walking around also driving around.

Forget about it Crank. Cloning is the next big thing.

I know that I am getting old, but I thought that people were still being made the same way. I hope that the method has not changed because that was so much fun.

Agreed. Well actually they are being made the same way but they are definitely becoming different now…..

It’s the GQP Virus at work. It trashes the Brain.

Haha! XD Nah ppl have been doing stupid things since the dawn of time!