Seldom have I benefited more from a boob-toob-less lifestyle than recently, when I was spared the non-stop hype over the royal wedding. Why didn't they put it off a couple months so they could've hit the 30th anniversary of Princess Diana's wedding? (I guess there was a groom, but nobody remembers his name.)
People who worship the false idol of Progress should ask themselves some brutal questions. For forty years women have been liberated, supposedly, and they've all wanted to become hard-boiled district attorneys Monday through Friday; but they still want to be fairy princesses on the weekend, or at least on one "magical" day of their lives. My gawd, did you see that ridiculous "train" or whatever you call it that Princess Kate dragged behind her with the help of an aide. (Lady-in-waiting?)
Perhaps my whole problem is that I'm old enough to remember the world and the media making fools of themselves over Princess Diana. And yet the younger generation thinks that there is something NEW and EXCITING about Kate Middleton.
The Old did learn something in their lives, but they're never able to pass that wisdom on to their successors. So the Young must learn everything all over again. So is real progress even theoretically possible?
Why do Republics have to turn into Imperiums after the example of ancient Rome? Why do financial bubbles still occur centuries after the Tulip Bulb Mania and the Mississippi Bubble? After the Great War (World War I) why did a new generation have to experience World War II? Why is this decade going to be one of stagflation and deficits, after the lessons of the 1970s?
There was a strange episode in Star Trek: the Next Generation, in which they looped through a disaster a half dozen times. They gradually became aware that they went through this before, and started sending signals to the future iteration, warning them of it. With each iteration the experience changed slightly. Finally, despite maddeningly slow learning, the Future learned to avoid the disaster of the Past. Well, that's the difference between Fact and Fiction.
People who worship the false idol of Progress should ask themselves some brutal questions. For forty years women have been liberated, supposedly, and they've all wanted to become hard-boiled district attorneys Monday through Friday; but they still want to be fairy princesses on the weekend, or at least on one "magical" day of their lives. My gawd, did you see that ridiculous "train" or whatever you call it that Princess Kate dragged behind her with the help of an aide. (Lady-in-waiting?)
Perhaps my whole problem is that I'm old enough to remember the world and the media making fools of themselves over Princess Diana. And yet the younger generation thinks that there is something NEW and EXCITING about Kate Middleton.
The Old did learn something in their lives, but they're never able to pass that wisdom on to their successors. So the Young must learn everything all over again. So is real progress even theoretically possible?
Why do Republics have to turn into Imperiums after the example of ancient Rome? Why do financial bubbles still occur centuries after the Tulip Bulb Mania and the Mississippi Bubble? After the Great War (World War I) why did a new generation have to experience World War II? Why is this decade going to be one of stagflation and deficits, after the lessons of the 1970s?
There was a strange episode in Star Trek: the Next Generation, in which they looped through a disaster a half dozen times. They gradually became aware that they went through this before, and started sending signals to the future iteration, warning them of it. With each iteration the experience changed slightly. Finally, despite maddeningly slow learning, the Future learned to avoid the disaster of the Past. Well, that's the difference between Fact and Fiction.
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