Beer & BBQ

05/22/2024

Beer & BBQ

Daily writing prompt

Do you remember life before the internet?

Before The Chaos

Wow, what a question! As I cruise through the sixties on my journey of fantastic events one of them stands out, and although fascinating is the downfall of civilization.

No, I am not talking about marijuana as A.J. Anslinger thought back in 1937. And nope, not talking about Putin threating to blow up the world either.

That’s right bubba, I refer to the wonderful, addicting, asinine arrival of the internet.

Freedom

2 prompts for one, back before the internet everybody could taste freedom on a daily basis. You see, people had to go out and intermingle with other humans. WHAT? That’s right kiddo’s you actually had to go outside and engage with other humans.

No idea how to do something, no problem look it up in an encyclopedia. I used to drive truck otr and bet your ass I had a phone card. What’s that you ask, When you stopped for gas or hit a rest area you could use a pay phone and call home ET.

And news channels actually gave you news, not a bunch of drama about who’s who in Hollywood and why they think they are more important than you. My God, we actually enjoyed the outdoors.

Want a date, you better get dressed up and go out to meet up with other people, POF was not a thing. Volleyball was a game we enjoyed playing on the week-end. But the one that pops out the most to me is human connection without a damn phone in your face 24/7.

Win or Lose

Granted, the internet has brought with it some helpful tools to improve the world but just like to much of anything it is destructive to your health, both mentally and physically.

Need proof? ok. Let’s start with the mental aspect of this. Everyone can look up anything and all of a sudden we had all kinds of issues with depression, suicide rates exploded, Perverts started ramping up and made the news {look at your phone!} Cyber crime became the normal instead of backyard BBQ’s.

Physically the whole world went to hell. Weight gain became the norm, why? You could blame it on the additives and preservatives being put into our food but how did they get the ideas of doing this, the internet…right.

Another reason for weight gain? Sure I can give you that, As a whole the population quit getting exercise and became glued to that damn little box in their hand. Kids gave up playing outside in favor of sitting in front of a screen playing games with someone on the other side of the planet.

And at the end of this rant is this…

Life was more exciting, adventurous, healthy, and damn sure more enjoyable. But I digress here as I use this magical tool of destruction to connect with you while enjoying my morning prompt and coffee.