Living in the past? - Beyond Tiki

D Digitiki Tiki Socialite L.A. baby! Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 818	D Digitiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 24, 2007 10:06 AM Jack, I must say the sword cuts both ways. Today we live in world where a political party is banking on intolerance and actually promoting it. Today as in yesteryear, brown people and Muslims have replaced blacks as those who are "what's wrong with this country". Technology has certainly exploded and we have accomplished amazing things in the worlds of technology and medicine. The the caveat is that George Orwell seems to be closer to what's happening today than Popular Science Magazine. That wonderful technology is also being used by governments (including ours) to spy on its own citizens and to track people's lifestyles in every increasing detail. The advancement in AIDS research has been politicized and thus slowed. Having said all that, it seems that basically nothing has changed on one sense. Now, as with then, people looked back to "the good old days", some suffer, some prosper, everyone is striving for better and better. We live in amazing times as did our parents and grandparents. Our children and their children will live in amazing times as well. In the 50's nobody predicted the Internet. Who knows where the future will take us. But, with increasing knowledge comes increasing responsibility.

Jack,
I must say the sword cuts both ways. Today we live in world where a political party is banking on intolerance and actually promoting it. Today as in yesteryear, brown people and Muslims have replaced blacks as those who are "what's wrong with this country". Technology has certainly exploded and we have accomplished amazing things in the worlds of technology and medicine. The the caveat is that George Orwell seems to be closer to what's happening today than Popular Science Magazine. That wonderful technology is also being used by governments (including ours) to spy on its own citizens and to track people's lifestyles in every increasing detail. The advancement in AIDS research has been politicized and thus slowed.

Having said all that, it seems that basically nothing has changed on one sense. Now, as with then, people looked back to "the good old days", some suffer, some prosper, everyone is striving for better and better. We live in amazing times as did our parents and grandparents. Our children and their children will live in amazing times as well. In the 50's nobody predicted the Internet. Who knows where the future will take us. But, with increasing knowledge comes increasing responsibility.

Post #327960 by Digitiki on Fri, Aug 24, 2007 10:06 AM