Waiting for the Button Age
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
October 21, 2016 4:04pm CST
Waiting for the Button Age -
Whoever it was who named the big city to be a place of caves was a wise person.
Here, we are all cave dwellers. Ours is a redo of the old Stone Age, but this time around we have push buttons and noises. Push a button now and things happen.
The button on the wall, when you push it, opens a door through which you can step so as to be whisked upward, often hundreds of feet, within the little box that serves you as your vertical carriage.
The button on the wired box that sits at your table is also pushable. When you push it, noise, words, and images fly forth from inside your cave and land without hesitation in the caves of others of your kind.
The button in the middle of your tummy, when pushed, tells you that the rest of you is hungry and, therefore, it is time for you to open up a box containing food of some sort - cold food, hot food, or indifferent temperature food - maybe tasty food - maybe not.
Why this age is named the Stone Age may actually be a mystery.
No. It is the Button Age.
Even so, you can look about and what do you see? Trees? Grass? Critters? No. You see buttons.
But, if you look up, if you look down, if you look sideways, there are the stones. Stones atop stones atop other stones. Stones everywhere. Maybe our age is really another "Stone Age. That "Button Age" may just have to wait a while before showing up.
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Image source: Stone dwellings from my Media Graphics CD
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Oct 16
@rebelann - Been there - done that. Maybe what we see here in the "big" cities of Texas is some stuff in the middle and stickers, tumble weeds, blue sky, mountains, plus fields and forests as soon as you set foot outside the city limits - not like back east and up north where you never know when you left one city and entered into the next one. I drove through three cities one time before I knew that I had left the first of them.
I hope that you are taking good care of El Paso and my old buddies at Beaumont Army Hospital and Fort Bliss, and all of the rest of it. -Gus-
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@rebelann (117196)
• El Paso, Texas
22 Oct 16
I've never been that far east @Ceerios I imagine I wouldn't like it much.
Twixt Ft Bliss and the City of El Paso they're destroyin the little bit of desert left that eagles, hawks, bob cats, fox, rabbit, prairie dog, lizard and snakes need to survive in. It's a cryin shame.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Oct 16
@rebelann - You are correct. You would not like a lot of the stuff you are exposed to up east and up in the northeast. Crowded. and some of the folks there don't seem to like other folks. One time I had to do some work at the nuclear med lab in Bellevue Hospital over on 2nd Avenue in New York City. I said to the city cop on the street out front, "Good Morning. How are you?" He looked at me and replied, "What's it to you?" Strange places up that way, sure enough. Tumbleweeds and armadillos - much better. 
-Gus-
-Gus-2 people like this
@jennyjoy (1957)
• Bangalore, India
22 Oct 16
What an amazing perspective! I loved looking at it from that angle and what you say is so true.
