"Everything's amazing... nobody's happy."
I made my kids watch this on Friday.
This is medicine which can help people of any ideology. It's best delivered to kids in a comedy routine format with lots of audience cheers for affirmation. The grouchy old dad has a higher chance of being summarily dismissed.
I like how he busts on us Gen-X-ers for complaints about those people with the irritating phone numbers with the high numbers and zeroes. Making the 30-year trip across the country kind of puts the "making sparks" style of dialing into perspective as well.
I remember an old priest, Father Murphy, who was on a pilgrimage to Rome I made in 1998 talking with amazement about our flight. "Isn't technology wonderful to have enabled us to come to this ancient city?" He was talking the way everyone should be thinking (thank you Nicholas Cage.) People need to be more amazed and more content. Or if they aren't content with their devices, go build a better one.
LOL: "Is the speed of light not fast enough for you?"
ReplyDeleteI get tweaked when I hear a youngster make fun of old people (yeah, like me) for not knowing how some new-fangled gadget works -- when we're the ones who INVENTED that thing and actually do know how it works under the hood.
ReplyDeleteWe might have invented it, Pik, but, we didn't build it. Ain't it grand that Hillary is on that bandwagon now.
DeleteAnd it is government that provides these devices to people, to boot. Good thing we're still around to pay for all of it . . .
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