"Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn."
Alvin Toffler (born 1928-10-03) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). His later focus has been on the increasing power of 21st century military hardware, weapons and technology proliferation, and capitalism.
This is the time of year when we wish everyone we run into a Happy New Year and though I have wished people a "Happy New Year" I am perfectly cognizant that the operative word is "wish". The reality is that for many people the coming year is going to be worse than than the one ending.
To Toffler's , "he will be the man who has not learned how to learn." I would add, and has forgotten or ignored much of what he has learned.
Those of us in the "Baby Boomer" generation are lucky in that much of the history we were exposed to had not yet been colored by political correctness and/or revisionism and the knowledge of history was still considered relevant to modern life. Unfortunately, lucky that we were, we have made poor use of our good fortune.
The knowledge of your own personal history is important to you as, hopefully, it keeps you from making the same mistakes over and over again to your own detriment. The knowledge of your own history helps your to survive. I suspect however that many of us have not embraced the relevance of our countries history, religious history, scientific history to the survival of ourselves and our progeny.
It is not a stretch to suspect that based on the recent history of our government/corporate culture that the next year will result in a confluence of missteps that will bode ill for us all.
Some examples:
Government has become as, if not more, corrupt than at any other time in history. Although corruption has always been a problem, the corruption of the constitution, the building blocks of our "free" society, is the corruption that insures that whatever is broken will be hard fixed.
Corporations have grown so large and powerful that they can now blackmail the government and extort the people, telling us to go to hell when we question just what exactly are they doing with their plunder.
As a people we have spent so much time arguing the morals of each other we have allowed the immorality of those who set us against each other. We have let our prejudiced arguments over left vs. right and liberal vs. conservative seeking to blame everyone, get in the way while those whose ideology is focused on riches and power have become the true ruling party. To them have gone the spoils.
It is my suspicion that if you have never been poverty stricken you will never understand the loss of freedoms that come with economic bondage. You will never understand why some would risk their lives to for the privilege of becoming slave labor. You may yet get that chance.
And who will we blame for the coming turmoil? The government? The Corporations? After all we have to blame somebody. However a collective look in a mirror would reveal the true culprit. It is "We The People" who were entrusted with the sacred duty/obligation to maintain what others who came before us lost everything including their lives to give us.
We have written about these things and the hits on such writings pale in comparison to the hits we get on a post about 1% news. Just as sites that write about American Idol or Brittaney Spears get more hits than most sites about Freedom. In times of such trouble it is as Nero playing while Rome burns.
So as the fire rages I will wish you a Happy New Year. I would also wish that the next year would see a nationwide awakening to the destruction of our perceived Freedom. And since I'm "wishing" I will add one more (we get three don't we?), that once the awakening occurs that AMERICANS rise up like a phoenix from the ashes tear down the false Temples and take back their rightful heritage.
One can wish.................rcAdd to Technorati Favorites
