Posted on 09/11/2017 11:03:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Freedom works!
The Free Market Economy is freedom at work!
So many seem to need redial educating about freedom. Many in America who have a great deal of freedom seem to be confused about it.
But those who do not have freedom - most of the world - know exactly what it is and many would risk death to get it
There has never been Smithsonian Free Trade, nor Smithsonian national economy.
All trade is managed trade. The smart manage it to their advantage like the early American mercantilists and the modern Chinese mercantilists...who copied us.
The stupid and the dead strive for Smithsonian Free Trade while the mercantilists bleed them slowly to death.
The lesson I got out of that episode was always to have a Plan B in your pocket, just in case. And a C and a D, while you’re at it.
Bemis. should have waddled over to the town drugstore and tried on all the glasses until he found one close enough.
for later
If nothing else a globe with water in it would have allowed him to read up on how to customize a pair.
Yes, and many here won’t listen.
Yup, he was so smart reading all of those worthless entertaining books all of his life, but in reality he was stupid. One of my least favorite TZ episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Distance
“Cursed by his own hubris!” — Bender from Futurama
He should have found a small pointed object like a pencil tip or pen tip and used it to make a pair of temporary pinhole glasses using a book cover.
You can see clearly through a pinhole held near the eye...it acts as a lens does with a very small F value.
Once he had the rudimentary pair he would be able to fashion a better pair since he could then see clearly.
Works best in bright light.
This is why those old pinhole cameras worked so easily....
This effect is also why the very sensitive camera but with a tiny lens opening in a smartphone gives a pretty sharp image with no focusing.
The first eyeglasses were actually monocles made from a thin slice of wood cut from a small round branch. The wooden monocle would be smoothed down and then have a tiny hole gouged through the center. Once placed on the eye it would stay there and in good light the user could see very clearly.
If the light is very bright you can get so close to an object with the simple monocle that it becomes a low-power microscope.
I guess this is a bit of prepper knowledge from the distant past :-)
Bemis, if he had been resourceful enough, could have used what glasses he did have and go find optometrist store and with a little trial and error gotten a pair of glasses that might have worked.
I don’t think it had anything to do with social commentary or interdependence with people. Bemis certainly didn’t need “other people” to complete his paradise. He only needed his spare glasses!
As a matter of routine, Twilight Zones usually ended with irony and the ending was as simple as that.
They don’t carry glasses with corrective lenses at the corner drugstore.
It’s kinda anachronistic now that eyeglasses are made with plastic lenses...........
They do here in FL.......Walmart, Dollar Tree just about anywhere............I bet other states do as well............
The movie “Castaway” with Tom Hanks was a great example of someone managing to live alone.
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