Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 21, 2025

Where did Caulfield go?

Since the Gutenberg Bible was possibly the only published work at that time, you would only get Christian search results.

Not different at all. No electricity back then so they couldn’t use computers.

I’m surprised at Frazz. Is more knowledge and more distribution of knowledge ever really a bad thing?

Can you imagine what social media posts between Galileo and the Pope might have been like?

PisaGuy : Look, you cretin, it’s clear that the Earth goes around the sun, not vice versa. That miter must be squeezing all the sense out of your brain!

VaticanHoncho1 : Let’s see how fast you fall when we drop you off the top of a tower! Keep it up, PisaGuy , you’re headed for the flames!

…Out of the mouths of babes.

The computers will decide if we are worth saving.

Imagine Issac Newton’s physics YouTube videos, DaVinci’s art class on YouTube!

Did Michaelangelo have paint by numbers?

If the discoveries of the past that led to discoveries in the present are any indication, Frazz’s question has already been answered. Now, whether those influences were properly applied and led to a much better present, only the future will show.

It’s like a möebus strip. When you reach a certain point in life you turn and look back and find an entirely different perspective on your experiences.

Or as was once written:

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot — “Little Gidding” (the last of his Four Quartets)

On the other hand,

A man said to the universe:

“Sir, I exist!”

“However,” replied the universe,

“The fact has not created in me

A sense of obligation.”

‘War Is Kind’, Stanza 96 – Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

I feel that if Rome hadn’t fallen in 476, we would have been on the moon before 1500!

And two hundred years from now they will (if we’re still around) they’ll wonder how we managed to survive such primitive conditions.

First, readers complain Caulfield is seen too often, then they wonder where he went. Jef can’t win with you folks.

I have enough to think of dealing with those things now.

If as she asks everything happened then, then we would have been fighting Skynet for a while now.

Missed opportunity here. If not for the printing press, most people wouldn’t have learned to read.

And ignorance is never an option. A LITTLE knowledge is the dangerous thing.

Social media notably absent from premise