Ahh - those the days
Comic Strip
Baby Blues
19 March 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comics/babyblues.html
It's all about context.
There are things from my childhood that make no sense today - children of today have no context for them. Packs of kids running wild in the neighbourhood, engaged in unsupervised, unscheduled play. Pick-up games of football or dodgeball in the streets - people driving in cars slowly enough in neighbourhoods that they DON'T HIT the children playing in the streets (now THAT'S a strange concept. To modern drivers anyway - given the way they speed up and down in front of MY house!!!)
Phones that came with the house - that were permanently attached to the walls. I remember buying our first phone, it was a strange thing to me. Still works, btw. Still in use - best phone in the house. AT&T hadn't learnt yet to make phones that crap out in a couple of years, they were too accustomed to making phones that lasted.
That's the problem I have with a lot of biographies or books about historical events. There's no context. This strip is talking about a way of life that was only 20 years or so in the past - how dare we presume to judge people 100, 200 years ago. In the Bible, when Jesus stood before the Roman governor in judgement, the "jesting Pilate" asked, "What is truth?" But that is one of the deepest questions in the Bible, imho.
What is truth?
It's all about context. Without context - what is the truth?
Baby Blues
19 March 2010
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comics/babyblues.html
It's all about context.
There are things from my childhood that make no sense today - children of today have no context for them. Packs of kids running wild in the neighbourhood, engaged in unsupervised, unscheduled play. Pick-up games of football or dodgeball in the streets - people driving in cars slowly enough in neighbourhoods that they DON'T HIT the children playing in the streets (now THAT'S a strange concept. To modern drivers anyway - given the way they speed up and down in front of MY house!!!)
Phones that came with the house - that were permanently attached to the walls. I remember buying our first phone, it was a strange thing to me. Still works, btw. Still in use - best phone in the house. AT&T hadn't learnt yet to make phones that crap out in a couple of years, they were too accustomed to making phones that lasted.
That's the problem I have with a lot of biographies or books about historical events. There's no context. This strip is talking about a way of life that was only 20 years or so in the past - how dare we presume to judge people 100, 200 years ago. In the Bible, when Jesus stood before the Roman governor in judgement, the "jesting Pilate" asked, "What is truth?" But that is one of the deepest questions in the Bible, imho.
What is truth?
It's all about context. Without context - what is the truth?