i didn’t think anything was “wrong” in the world (until Reagan was elected at least). the internet didn’t exist and that was OK.

this freed me up to do some pretty wide-ranging thinking:

• science fiction
• punk rock
• the church of the subgenius

that was the reality i chose to inhabit.

you could even say “i had the slack to inhabit this reality”.

growing up today is different.

we didn’t have the internet; your friends were all people you saw in school or in the neighborhood or at the mall. as a result you had a lot fewer friends, maybe. or you didn’t do quite so much with them.

friends were not this obsession that they are now. i think i recall that. friends were like people you played football with after school; they were people who got their licenses before you and y’all drove around aimlessly for no reason. i mean, my first girlfriend was my lab partner in chemistry. it doesn’t get much more offline than that…

you take for granted so many things that aren’t forever.

you also haven’t had society place blinders around your eyes and a carrot dangling from a stick tied to your head.