Heinlein often wrote about waking up in a completely strange land.

Prep Schools and then St.John’s College assembled me as a person devoted to Truth, Beauty, Good, and Justice. Everything went fine from 1947 till 2001 — about half a century. Then books went out the window, replaced by apps on Smartphones and txt messages, and trend info. So my whole library of rare books suddenly became worthless – no readers — no books — no value there. Then art went out the window, paintings, poetry, dance, music replaced by reddit, and apps on Smartphones. So all my art books and books of poetry suddenly became worthless, and all my music on CD’s and all my films on DVD’s. The zombification of USA resulted in all that I owned becoming worthless. No brains, no minds, no appreciation of anything but reddit and apps on Smartphones. Nitwits did not steal my life, they just made everything in it worthless. My profession was as a reader of poetry. Today people can’t tell poetry from a jackhammer sound. They live in Zombie World, a place that I will never know. I am “passe” as one would say in French. History means nothing. Economics means something, but what exactly? Zombies are clue free. The world did not steal anything from me. It just made me a ghost from Other Skies. Life is good, and better if one does not complain. I have kept my books on mp-3, and on CD’s. I have much of my classical music, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach. Zombies are Hell. So no need to tell them to go there. They are demons made demonic by the teachers, who wasted 12 precious years of their lives and left them empty, desolate, vacuous, and void. Three mistakes — I did not marry. I did not buy gold ingots. I did not buy an acre of ground. People today are able to hear, but they cannot discern content because they are not able to listen. This 80 year old has seen and knows a few things, but they cannot be shared, not with zombies, rocks, or trees.