07-10-2018, 11:32 AM
You do paint a rather dark scenario of what our future may look like. Back in the mid-1980s it was widely predicted that the transportation wave of the future was going to be in high-speed rail. It had already proven relatively successful in much of Europe as well as Japan. I had often questioned how well it would take off in the US where the private auto is king. HSR was supposedly destined to perhaps all but obsolete both the car and the airplane. Here we are some 30 years later and HSR is in places few and far between on the western side of the Atlantic. Perhaps the question that needs to be asked is: Are we ready to implement a revised life philosophy or path with renewed confidence? I really feel that we don't (at least not yet) have the will to make some of the changes that really need to be made. I have my doubts as to whether today's society will ever be willing to sacrifice convenience for the common good. This will only occur when the majority begin to take on the attitude that it's time to live what we believe and believe in how and why we are living.
A few days ago I was in a somewhat oldies themed restaurant and this song came over the loudspeakers. Will all that is happening and what we read online, does it seem to you as though this song is still as relevant today as it was a half century ago when it was all over the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5znh58WITU8
A few days ago I was in a somewhat oldies themed restaurant and this song came over the loudspeakers. Will all that is happening and what we read online, does it seem to you as though this song is still as relevant today as it was a half century ago when it was all over the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5znh58WITU8