11-20-2016, 12:30 AM
(11-16-2016, 05:50 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Naw, that's so 20th century.
You know, now that the rest of Amerikkka has voted to return to the values of the 18th century, or worse, the fact that the 21st century never began is more firmly etched in my mind. We failed to enter the 21st century on Dec.12, 2000 when the Supreme Court selected a dufus from Texas as our president. Since then we've had just over one year total of Democratic progressive rule in Washington, and most states have reverted to the 18th century Republicans. Now the rest of Amerikkka has actually voted to go on a backward track again full speed ahead for at least another 4 years.
New gadgets do not a new century make, if we keep going backward socially and politically.
We'll have to do the best we can with the new energy sources. The tools for entering the 21st century are available, and the minority of flyover country and the majority that includes the coasts will have to make do as best we can until, perhaps in the 2020s, the USA has another chance to enter the 21st century.
The rest of the world is ambiguous too. Europe was well on its way, until our 2008 crash sent it back on its heels. The 2011 Arab Spring Revolution inspired revolts and protests against tyranny across the world, but they have borne little lasting fruit and unleashed several brutal civil wars, which have also help pushed Europe backward and more regressive because of the migration crisis (which I predicted, I keep reminding you; I have to pinch myself to realize that I got this so right, so long ago).
Tyranny has returned to The Phillippines, and right-wing corruption controls Brazil. Still, there's a lot more freedom and justice in the world than there had been in much of the 20th century. But in the USA, we are going backwards rapidly now, and only California stems the tide.