Prognosticators

One of my conservative friends told me he had read somewhere that liberalism seems to be dead or dying, that the future belongs to individualism rather than collectivism, and that the nation and the world are headed for a conservative future.

I replied that if conservatism ever gains a complete monopoly, the conservatives would split into two groups, the more conservative group, and the less conservative group, and thus liberalism would be reborn. The two philosophies simply need each other too much.

Sometimes our worst nightmares about the future come true. In my third grade, the teacher explained to us the difference between the words "to", "too", and "two".  Then she said something shocking. She told us that there were people as old as 20 or 25, or even older, who misused those three words.

I refused to believe it. It couldn't be true. Adults were simply too intelligent, to old, and two good two do something like that. But now I see it every day on the internet. My third grade teacher was a prophet. Maybe liberalism will end. I wonder what my third grade teacher had to say about that...