Go back and look at Rod Serling’s Twilight Zones of 60 years ago. While they seem quaint and dated in look and style to us today, they at least resemble our lives without all the digital devices. But imagine if people in 1960 could have watched videos from 1900, …
how radically different everything would be. If you remove biomedicine and industrial breakthroughs, the pace of radical change and innovation, as it appears in our daily lives, has slowed dramatically. An electric car is relatively new to us. But cars are not. …
We’re still flying on jet airliners built 55 years ago. In 1905, horse drawn conveyance was still the most common mode of transportation.
Consider that our political systems are changing even more slowly. The pace of change has been glacial.
I blame the selfish …
Consider that our political systems are changing even more slowly. The pace of change has been glacial.
I blame the selfish …
strain of toxic conservatism that Reagan ushered in. While they beat their chests and pretended to worship innovation, they really meant they loved making money from government-enabled invention and social progress. They have been ruinous to the evolution of the …
country and our species. We will probably not recover that pace of change for many generations, if at all. It needed good government to foster ands support that tempo. They destroyed government. On purpose. #RIP
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