WE Have Come Far

NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, you see people gazing intently into a hand held electronic device, whaterver else they're doing, they're staring intently at  a hand held electronic device.

...and so be it. it is, after all, this is the year two thousand and twelve, or twenty twelve, whichever you prefer. both are acceptable, so, whichever one you think it is, be openminded, not dogmatic.

i don't think this is quite the world i fantasized about in nineteen sixty five, when i was ten years old, and prone to fantasize about the distant future. i predicted that humans would be living all over the solar system by now, on the moon, on mars, with huge space stations...i was certainly wrong about that, unfortunately.

of course, hell....in nineteen sixty five, i thought that in the year twenty twelve i would be flying through the sky in my own jet car..

i remember believing, in nineteen seventy five, that one day computers, televisions, radios, and telephones sould be combined in one big screen, flat on the wall. i wasn't too far off with that one.

i would almost like to journey two hundred years back in time, and tell my hero and distant cousin davy crockett what lay two hundred years in his future, and why it was worth living and dying for...

but how would i do it? and was it?

well, i think it was. critical as i am of the human species and its past and current behavior, i truly believe that we, the human species, we are worth the trouble that brought us to where we are today, we ar worth all the misery of the past, as we are.  but of course, this is debatable...

maybe i sould start by asking davy how old his rifle was, and whether it was better than those used by his ancestors... then i would remind him that rifles are an example of progress, and he would agree. but would he believe me when i started talking about space travel, and hand held electronic devices of incredible power?  maybe not.

but for all our folly today, we have come far, and we've much farther still to go...

Bb

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