Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 16, 2021

Now, we know what is going on, but we realize we can’t change it.

I could only imagine what they’d think now

Give Lucy a 5¢ IOU, Snoopy.

Leave the theological philosophy to Linus, Lucy.

We feel your pain, Snoopy…

I think most of us are nervous because we do know what’s going on.

Great art never dies. Case in point. Though I’m glad Sparky isn’t around to see it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of psychotherapy, Snoopster.

I have never heard it put better.

To think this was before the internet. Now the problem’s which fact is fact and if you can really trust it.

The nose knows, as in Snoopy’s nose. And if it smells rotten, it probably is — rotten. What else it there to know.

Ah, the strip that foreshadowed Covid.

If Snoopy was nervous then, one can only imagine what he’d be now!

That was in 1974! (I think), imagine what would happen now in 2020-2021

Wow, this strip is even more true 50 years later

…but at least now you know why you’re nervous!

And this was from the 1970s. Today, it’s even worse.

Isolated – Long before the other name for being quarentined when you are COVID positive until the COVID vaccine has your turn.

Maybe if the media would tell the WHOLE TRUTH instead of just some of it….

To think that this sentiment is from roughly 20 years after television became popular. Back then you had to wait until 6:00 to get the TV news and most stations went off the air sometime in the evening.Now information is (nearly) forcibly injected into our brains on a personal, pre-sorted, “just for you” level 24 hours a day through our smartphones.Yeah, maybe YOU turn yours off – or don’t even have one. The problem is that the vast majority of kids and young adults DO have them and can’t resist the “ding” of a social media alert.Snoopy’s “comedic” nervousness in 1974 has turned into real-life anxiety for millions of people – particularly our youth.I believe that society will eventually mature around this technology as it did with radio and television. I’m just concerned about the damage it will take getting there.

This is kind of what I say to my clients now. Helping work through the anxiety is the tough part. Lucy is smart to get out of that.

There’s a lot of that going around now Snoopy.

How does one find the original publication date of this? I tried Google’s “image search” but that didn’t help.

All she wants is that cold hard cash. Nickels, nickels, nickels.

Now we do not know anything but lots of it

Is Snoopy going to run up another bill, and have Lucy put a lien on his dog dish again?

Woa! And 46 years later…

Ignorance may not be bliss, just relaxing.

Well Snoop, I could have told you what you’d get if you sought out psychiatric help. It always ends this way, and you’re lucky it only cost you a nickel to learn it.

Join the club Snoopy…….

Here’s my nickel. But that still doesn’t help me.

“And I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…” – Bono

… I wonder what Lucy, CB, and CS would say about social media?

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article248482130.html

It’s better that way snoopy. Unless you have certain electronics…

That’s because Lucy isn’t a doctor, medical or psychiatric. She’s a con artist who defrauds folks out of their money with her terrible advice. You should charge her, Snoopy, for having to listen.

I don’t think Van Pelt does either.

Nice job Lennie Peterson! You nicely scooped this strip in my GoComics feed. You really do know The Big Picture.

story of my life

It’s as if this was written five minutes ago.

The growing pains the internet has brought on could change Us for the worse. We had the world given to Us and look what we did with it. A tragedy if you think about it…5 cents please

This is the most relevant thing I’ve read all day.

I actually just read that one of the people charged in the Capitol riot was a 70 year old dude from some backwater place in Alabama with no digital footprint that had never had an interaction with the law. The FBI was saying that having the social media platforms block people was making it extremely hard to identify people who could be threats. Indeed – Big Brother is watching …

Talk to meSo you can seeOh, what’s going on