Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 12, 2022

Chips on an island with no water? That’s worst than starving.

And on the other side is an advertisement for something that will be useless and no call centre to help

At least it’s not a Philosopher’s Guide Map (which would mark the point with “Why are you here?”)

It should show a man helically attached to an inclined plane.

It could be useful information if it told him which direction he should swim.

Center of nowhere

How do they know that?

The next island has an identical sign, except it says “You were there”.

The 2001 monolith

The result of reading the instruction book on most digital devices.

And considering that electronics have not come with instruction books for most of this century, It would be well out of date.

There’s got to be a mall somewhere close by. He needs to keep swimming.

Apparently it’s not the destination but the journey that really counts – as he is finding out … I am told even the longest journey starts with the first step ( and other trite sayings).

All that swimming and he got nowhere atoll.

Looking for a BlockBuster?

Where is the food court?

It’s always nice to know where you are but not particularly useful if you have nowhere to go.

Or … gets to the sandwich machine and he’s got no change.

In the Matrix, you’re not really here.

Once you’ve had chips, there is no going back to boring coconuts

The human condition.

I feel that way in a mall.

No matter where you go, there you are.

Russian envoy hit with red paint bomb at WW2 remembrance ceremony in Warsaw,Poland.

Great picture.Buy the man a plane ticket to Florida.Two dictators t here who need chastising.

If it was a vending machine, where was he going to get the change for it!?

The Marketing Archipelago.

You are always here.

The other side says “See other side”

Could be worse. Fifty years ago he could have run into some Japanese soldiers who thought the war was still going on.

If you know where you are you are no longer lost. But you still may be misplaced.

This is not the nearest mall, bub!

Even if it was a vending machine, he probably doesn’t have any change. And I bet the chips would be stale.

It makes only slightly less sense than those arrow signs telling you how many thousands of miles it is to Hoboken, etc. that soldiers put up around the South Pacific.

Where ever you are, there you are.