Diversity is our greatest strength.
Diversity is our greatest strength.
It also totally wrong:) We just tend to get used to all the changes along the way. Things like Penicillin, Polio Vaccinne and the rest of medical advances have radically changed that 70 year olds lifestyle. Odds are the guy watches TV (didn't come around til the early 50s for most people), drives more, and heck eats at McDonalds (there weren't fast food restaurants in the 40s)
Change normally takes longer than expected but then the final push can happen very fast. The cell phone was invented in 1973. 20 years later it was still a niche product. Then in 10 more years it became common. And 10 years after that we don't even think about it. Now adays you don't even think about it. You assume that you can always contact your friends and ask where they are and if they want to meet up. 30 years ago, you couldn't do that.
Weather=climate
Raising taxes promotes economic growth.
Corporations are people.
Raising the minimum wage to $15 will help low wage workers.
Economic success or disaster is due to the current president.
The president controls the economy.
The presidential election is the only election that matters.
A person can be born in the wrong body.
Mental illness should be celebrated.
Taking millions of dollars in campaign donations does not corrupt politicians.
Reagan was a great president.
The economy is doing great!
Obamacare is great!
Voting for third party candidates is a wasted vote because third party candidates won't receive enough votes to win.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is the best option.
American exceptionalism.
George Washington never told a lie.
Honest Abe.
and many more
Women are paid less than otherwise identical men for doing the same thing.
Raising the minimum wage will elevate the working poor out of poverty.
Hillary cares about the children, or people for that matter.
... to name a few.
I'm changing my opinion of you Soi sauce, and here's me thinking all along that you were a Marxist.
The whole, "this will change your life," or "and you'll never guess what happened next," etc also dominate clickbait media, yet aren't very different from older concepts of "must-see tv" or "you have to see it to believe it," or " you won't want to miss..."
The new art is filtering out the noise as we have more noise than ever.
nosegrindr wrote:
The 800 is run on pure hate.
weakling
Hillary is not the Antichrist.
I'm not saying things don't continue to change. What I'm saying is that the scope, or the ramifications, of the new innovations are less and less. I'm making a statement about the "significance" of the change, not the "existence" of the change.
We haven't had a life style changing invention for some time. Think of the invention of cars, it meant that people no longer had to keep a horse alive on their property in order to travel long distances. Think of all the labor involved, and land requirements, in order to own a horse. Now compare the inventions of cars to the cell phone. So now I can call people from anywhere whereas with the land-line phone, I could only call from where the phone was connected. BFD. It was the invention of the phone in the first place that was revolutionary. Cell phones are just a modification/improvement to a previous invention. The last really big invention was computers. But even computers are rather small in scope. They are essentially a communication and machine control device. But a computer is only as revolutionary as the machine it is controlling. Intercontinental passenger airline travel and space travel where both happening before the invention of the PC. Jet and Rocket travel has not made any significant improvements since the 60s. All the improvements since the invention of the PC, have just made them smaller and more available to communicate with other computers. Once again; BFD.
Turning to medicine, the invention/discovery of antibiotics and vaccines had huge impacts...those happened 90 and 220 years ago respectively.
The significance of changes in the industrial revolution (aka the energy revolution) had such huge effects on humanity (in first world societies) that we expect the same pace of change. We need to accept the fact that the pace/scope of change is nothing like what it was previously.
Computers may be small in scope but the internet I'd propose is another shift. The full effect of it remains to be seen, yet it's come on full force as an integrated piece of most parts of the modern person's life reshaping everything. I totally agree though, that change does not happen in the same way it used to. But it can't or it won't be change, right?
On a similar note: between the threads in the thin veil that is modern life, you might see that humans actually aren't separate from nature.
800 On Pure Hate wrote:
nosegrindr wrote:The 800 is run on pure hate.
weakling
Amen, brother. The power of pure hate is the reddest of red pills.
celery wrote:
The significance of changes in the industrial revolution (aka the energy revolution) had such huge effects on humanity (in first world societies) that we expect the same pace of change. We need to accept the fact that the pace/scope of change is nothing like what it was previously.
From the end of the 19th Century to 1969, we went from horses and steam engines to cars to airplanes to orbiting the Earth to landing on the moon.
30 years ago you could fly from New York to London in 3.5 hours, or take a helicopter to easily bounce between the Oakland and San Francisco airport. No longer.
The Golden Gate Bridge initially took 2 years to build.
Then, the hippies took over. Since the 70's transportation has not made any major innovations. We have incrementally safer and more fuel efficient cars, rather than trying to do more. Today, the onramp to the Golden Gate Bridge has already taken 7 years to build, cost more than the bridge itself did, inflation adjusted, and isn't done yet.