I want to know why whenever you compare the present day to say Fifty years ago it looks so much more bleak and lack luster?
Let me further explain when did we start worrying about what will happen to us in the near future more than wondering what we could do to better ourselves?
I'll even give a few examples, presidential debates, In the most recent elections you have no very few promises to try and advance ourselves in any real particular way I mean they are all really shallow vague promises like finding a cure to this or that, which is in no way bad at all I'm all for a safer quicker cure for cancer or eliminating aids and HIV all together but how many times did you hear them say they are going to try and promote a certain research or even really get behind a company or hospital just to get even that one further ahead. But know lets shoot back to the sixties cold war, red scare and what do you have Kennedy who was pushing things like competing with other countries in the "Space Race" Now I'm not saying they were much different back then we all know how much black bagging went on just because you laughed when you found out Lucy had red hair, but it wasn't a fore front thing, he won by show a want for bettering ourselves not just defending ourselves.
Example two TV yep a good ol' reliable extension of imagination. More popular shows in the past where based around on how things will be in fifty years or more, now you have shows that focus on stupid, normal (I use it loosely in this context, because this isn't how most people act) people who do anything and everything for money, or we even have show about girls whose parents are rich and how much they are spoiled for just living(another loose term) through another year and making to their birthdays. I was watching a show the other day on Fox some you might know it, it's called 24 and this popular show (which I don't regularly partake of) focus around a terrorist who was capable of causing planes to crash into each other around the White House.
To sum this all up I have a better question, "Why do we find less amazement in what will become of us in the next 50 years and more fear in if we will even make it that far?"
Let me further explain when did we start worrying about what will happen to us in the near future more than wondering what we could do to better ourselves?
I'll even give a few examples, presidential debates, In the most recent elections you have no very few promises to try and advance ourselves in any real particular way I mean they are all really shallow vague promises like finding a cure to this or that, which is in no way bad at all I'm all for a safer quicker cure for cancer or eliminating aids and HIV all together but how many times did you hear them say they are going to try and promote a certain research or even really get behind a company or hospital just to get even that one further ahead. But know lets shoot back to the sixties cold war, red scare and what do you have Kennedy who was pushing things like competing with other countries in the "Space Race" Now I'm not saying they were much different back then we all know how much black bagging went on just because you laughed when you found out Lucy had red hair, but it wasn't a fore front thing, he won by show a want for bettering ourselves not just defending ourselves.
Example two TV yep a good ol' reliable extension of imagination. More popular shows in the past where based around on how things will be in fifty years or more, now you have shows that focus on stupid, normal (I use it loosely in this context, because this isn't how most people act) people who do anything and everything for money, or we even have show about girls whose parents are rich and how much they are spoiled for just living(another loose term) through another year and making to their birthdays. I was watching a show the other day on Fox some you might know it, it's called 24 and this popular show (which I don't regularly partake of) focus around a terrorist who was capable of causing planes to crash into each other around the White House.
To sum this all up I have a better question, "Why do we find less amazement in what will become of us in the next 50 years and more fear in if we will even make it that far?"