Where Are My Robot Maids?
One of my favorite complaints is that the “future” looks just like the past. All the fabulous inventions they promised us back in the 60s never materialized. Except for teeny tiny phones and this internet gadget the far away world of 2010 looks just like my childhood way back before man walked on the moon. “Where oh where,” I often lament “is my robot maid?”
Come to think of it not only is the now not as good as we were told it would be, it isn’t even as good as back then. Take for instance the hundreds of channels we now have instead of the 5 we had in the 60s. Hundreds of channels but nothing as good as say The Dick Van Dyke Show, Get Smart, Mission Impossible, or the one and only never to be imitated Star Trek. Those are the DVD’s we let our son watch because there is nothing on 21st tv but smut-fests, including what is on the “Family” channel. And if PJ O’Rourke is to be believed there isn’t a single automobile made today that can hold a candle to the great cars of the 50s and 60s.
Finally someone explained to me why the future that was supposed to contain moon bases and flying cars and robot maids, contains the same old combustion engines, a 30 year old space vehicle and no robot maids. This great video from Pajamas TV explains where we all went wrong, and it turns out that in my heart I knew what was right all along. This like so much is all liberals fault http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2907
To sum it up Alinsky killed The Jetsons.
