Greetings good citizen, 'forward thinkers' of the past (or those who came after and 'cherry-picked' their ideas) seem to have been, er, 'restricted' in their areas of interest.
It is mentioned that our greatly expanded 'free-time' would be filled with people taking a more active role in government...but there aren't any details given and we've all seen what happens when you establish programs for one purpose that end up 'morphing' into something diametrically opposed to what they were founded for...like the DEA or the NSA, two institutions that basically exist to perpetuate their own survival. [It's a national disgrace that the prison system has been 'privatized', often by the very politicians that oversee them. Yet another 'by-product' of the Reagan Revolution.
Worse is we have judges that don't believe this is criminal!
Perhaps most troubling is how modern judges apparently don't know the difference between legal or illegal without an oligarch telling them.
Naturally, little attention has been given recently to the 'predictions' of past future enthusiasts (except for flying cars, damn things won't die!) especially their predictions of increased free time due to a growing laborforce and enhanced automation.
The question here is 'the box'. Is our failure to alter the structure of labor and society due to our [betters] myopia/failure to face reality?
'This is the way my Daddy did it, this is the way I do it and this is the way my heir will do it' (although Jerky would probably say 'son' and keep divorcing the girls that failed to produce one...)
Here we find the likely 'root cause' of the long periods of 'stasis' between 'bursts' of advancement. It's almost sick to admit the culprit is 'Tradition'. [There are nearly a thousand years between the Renaissance and the advent of the 'Machine Age' which burst on the scene during the US civil war.
Some try to separate them but the nuclear age as well as the space age are both 'subsets' of the Machine age...and so is the current computer age.
Tradition...a key feature of 'conservatism' is the reason why we have hundreds of millions unemployed and nearly as many homeless.
How is it our politicians ignore this...wart on our society?
Seems our oligarchs are 'tradition bound' too.
It is obvious to most that we are staggering (as a society) due to many significant 'self-inflicted wounds' BECAUSE those at the top oppose CHANGE.
By not 'rocking the boat' they are inviting it to be scuttled.
Are they listening? Will they before it's too late?
We'll have to wait and see.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
It is mentioned that our greatly expanded 'free-time' would be filled with people taking a more active role in government...but there aren't any details given and we've all seen what happens when you establish programs for one purpose that end up 'morphing' into something diametrically opposed to what they were founded for...like the DEA or the NSA, two institutions that basically exist to perpetuate their own survival. [It's a national disgrace that the prison system has been 'privatized', often by the very politicians that oversee them. Yet another 'by-product' of the Reagan Revolution.
Worse is we have judges that don't believe this is criminal!
Perhaps most troubling is how modern judges apparently don't know the difference between legal or illegal without an oligarch telling them.
Naturally, little attention has been given recently to the 'predictions' of past future enthusiasts (except for flying cars, damn things won't die!) especially their predictions of increased free time due to a growing laborforce and enhanced automation.
The question here is 'the box'. Is our failure to alter the structure of labor and society due to our [betters] myopia/failure to face reality?
'This is the way my Daddy did it, this is the way I do it and this is the way my heir will do it' (although Jerky would probably say 'son' and keep divorcing the girls that failed to produce one...)
Here we find the likely 'root cause' of the long periods of 'stasis' between 'bursts' of advancement. It's almost sick to admit the culprit is 'Tradition'. [There are nearly a thousand years between the Renaissance and the advent of the 'Machine Age' which burst on the scene during the US civil war.
Some try to separate them but the nuclear age as well as the space age are both 'subsets' of the Machine age...and so is the current computer age.
Tradition...a key feature of 'conservatism' is the reason why we have hundreds of millions unemployed and nearly as many homeless.
How is it our politicians ignore this...wart on our society?
Seems our oligarchs are 'tradition bound' too.
It is obvious to most that we are staggering (as a society) due to many significant 'self-inflicted wounds' BECAUSE those at the top oppose CHANGE.
By not 'rocking the boat' they are inviting it to be scuttled.
Are they listening? Will they before it's too late?
We'll have to wait and see.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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