Re: To Live in One Life

There's definitely no argument that humanity has seen its greatest days in the past century and a half. I'm not saying "greatest" in the completely positive sense, although there have been many positive things come to pass. I just mean that at no time in the history of humanity have we advanced through as many situations/technologies/life-affirming moments as we have since the Industrial Revolution.

We're considered a rather out-of-touch and dull generation compared to those of people like Mr. Henry Allingham, but as Matt pointed out in his blog, even OUR gen has seen some monumentally historical things come to pass that have changed our future (for well or ill). We may be spoiled lazy and unappreciative, but I couldn't imagine my life without DVDs, uber PCs/Macs, video games, mp3s, badass vid and still cams, and older advancements like comic books, CDs, and, hell, even Dr. Pepper and boxer shorts.

One of the only things that scare me really is that we're working toward something of a non-future, and our kids and kids's kids are looking at a very different existence than we, and even someone like Henry, got to experience. I hope I'm deadly wrong about it, and we continue to expand and flourish as a species, but right now there isn't a lot to look forward to. That's why we have to put our heads down and push against the wall we've ran into. But that's for another blog/rant altogether.