a trip to 2011
When I was a kid the future was a wonderful place. Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, streamlined personal rocket ships, gleaming cities. So now I'm living in the actual future!! I love to do Time Traveler cartoons. I think of myself as the guy who got sent into the future and has come back to 1958 with his report. (and it's always a shock to the scientists who are running the operation back in the fifties).
Labels: 2011, Arab Spring, Egypt, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Riots, Time Travel
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What kills me is that the 1% hasn't the foggiest idea of what the 99% are griping about.
Congress critters are so totally out of touch with reality that their answer is "take a bath and then get a job."
They actually think that jobs are flowing out of faucets. They do not understand that if a person takes a minimum wage job they cannot be out searching for a decent paying job.
I'm one of those people who managed to become under qualified for various reasons. So I went back to college at the age of 49 and wound up with a Ph.D. Now I'm OVER QUALIFIED!
Actually, I'm retired now with multiple disabilities, so I'm out of the rat race now.
I'm so disgusted with the way that the Republicans have decided to be anti-American by having absolute loyalty to their party and not even trying to do what their constituents sent them to do.
The United States is not the world's leader any more but most people have not figured that out yet. The country is no longer a Democratic Republic; it is now an oligarchy. The Roberts court in deciding that corporations are people sounded the death knell of the Republic.
I almost met Jules Verne. This meeting was not easy to arrange because the author had died a few months before my father was born. The man I did meet (in Ramat Gan) was, in fact, someone who sincerely thought he was Jules Verne. But he adamantly refused to talk about his books, of which I had read more than a few in English translation.
When I told my friends about this meeting, one of them (Mark Levinson) was not surprised. He said the explanation was obvious. Verne was time-traveling and I met him before he had written the books that I had read.
The only think wrong with this explanation is ... I didn't think of it myself.
Ciao, Izzy
I grew up in the 1960s believing that by the 21st century, there would be bases on the moon, a big circular space station orbiting Earth like the one in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey", and that all of the world's problems would be fixed.
Now the future is here and it's really no different from the world in which I grew up. I doubt that it's any better or worse (better in some ways, worse in others), than what came before. The 1930s had its big depression so is what's going on now really any different? The "Occupy" movement didn't invent opposition to greed and our modern politicians (regardless of party affiliation) and businesses didn't invent greed and corruption. These are all manifestations of who we are as human beings. They won't change until human beings change.
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