World is old.

A lot of it is just the quality of the photographs. Apologies to the Brits, but if you look at old black-and-white major league baseball photos from a hundred years ago, it looks like the fields have no grass, just mud and dirt, and all the uniforms are just a sad gray. But sometimes you see a rare old color photo or movie and you realize it wasn't like that at all.

 

Of course,people who lived in past ages didn't consider themselves to be in "history".Many of them from the Renaissance,through to the Enlightenment and on into the Industrial Revolution thought of themselves as being in the vanguard of thought and creativity.In many ways today though I feel like we are living in one perpetual moment, a kind of post-modern praxis of New World Order hegemony.Instant communication seems to make the world feel like a smaller place and creates a sense of contraction of time itself.

A kind of Sci-Fi dystopia is being played out in a precariously balanced game of real-time Monopoly,as we learn of NSA spying, global elites running amuck with the financial system - all set against a background of increased nationalism between nations,potential environmental catastrophe and continued austerity for the common man/woman.Democracy is turning out to be a sham,mostly just being a vote for two sides of the same coin.Is the brainwashing working,or will a concerted resistance emerge as more people wake up to what is going on? How will future historians judge us,If we make it that far.

 

I think we are exactly the same as the people in the industrial revolution and the people who made the pyramids. We are just put on a different stage so to speak, which makes for a different set of associations, knowledge and insights.

 

Yes.I agree.I have had almost the exact same thought as this.Can't think of anything else to add right now…Will let the sub-conscious secretary muse on it…So it's back to my dimly-lit candle couch for the mo.

 

I'm listening to Hawkwind. Could help

 

I'm listening to Tron "Legacy".