A world of rabbit holes
Thanks to satellite technology I have consistent Internet. Starlink. And along with consistent Internet I am able to fall down rabbit holes. Not hunting rabbits of course. Instead I have learned that I can watch old television drama from before my birth. As I said earlier a true time machine. The programs tend to follow a formula. But when you get that fact aside you have a chance to see what the world was like back in the good old days. Today I ended up in downtown San Francisco. A place where a policeman can hear an address and know exactly where it might be. A place where people always had a pocket full of change in case they need to call those police honest pay phone. No cells in those days. And when the police were called they showed up rapidly and in large numbers. The detective always had the right question which he would use rapidly to master whatever the situation. You hear that there are two men and leather jackets and within minutes you find them. A magical time really. Or was it just that rabbit hole. I have learned that when someone is shot they always die unless they don’t. I have learned that the Street car never runs into the badly parked police cars. Again almost magical. And I have learned that back in the days following the war almost everyone had done military service. So many men train to shoot a pistol accurately and to always come away without being hurt themselves. Soldiers of good fortune. I intend to explore other cities because this seems that the majority of cities also had police shows. Cheap advertising. And once you learn your way around the city it becomes home. Hardly I have not yet found a place that I have actually lived. It might be that there were no police in those places. Or that I haven’t found the right rabbit hole yet. I will continue to seek. Lots of time on my hands and high speed Internet.
