Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 10, 2025

Always a good Monday when NS starts a story arc!

History is a great teacher. If you don’t know how you got here, you’re less likely to know where you’re going.

I never did think that I’d reach the stage when my memories were from ‘the olden time’ … or, indeed, that someone thought it remarkable that I was young, once.

Danae, your dad may have been a cool kid!

What did you expect from her, dude? She’s pretty much Calvin if he was a girl and modern day (minus the tiger. She got a living talking horse instead)

I now realize it used to amuse … then, irritate … my parents when I asked them to “tell me about the olden days.” Because I get that now from young relatives.

This is something I’ve noticed. Back in the day, about a third of all fiction was set in the past. Cowboys, musketeers, knights, Vikings, etc etc. The first time I heard the name ‘Edgar Allan Poe’ wasn’t in a classroom, it was in a comic book. These days, there’s hardly any historical content in movies TV.

Smite her.

ouch

… and if you had no stamps, you waited until Monday morning for the Post Office to open! Who goes to the Post Office anymore?

Stupid people are entertaining; smart people are boring. Rumor and innuendo are entertaining; facts are boring. Emotional, teary eyed people are entertaining; scientific instruction is boring.

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” predicted all of this in the 80’s.

There was aslo this thing called Cursive writing…..

I think of texting back then was passing notes in school. Emails were putting them in envelopes and dropping them in the mailbox