When I was growing up, I was always so fascinated by these "World of the Future" shorts that they showed in movie theaters and television. They had "Cars of the Future", "House of the Future", and all the different gadgets we would have by the 70's, 80's and 90's. In the 1950's, many of these shorts, as well as, public expectation was that we would be living in space by the 21st Century.
I remember in the late 60's and the 70's, how the general consensus was that American workers no longer took pride in their work, American businesses were about making a product as cheaply as they could get away with regardless of the low quality, and American Politicians no longer had any interest in the people except when it came to votes.
Somewhere along the way They, the Political-Economic Propaganda Machine, used semantics to high-jack the American Dream. They got you to accept inferior products and services for their profit and call it "just good Business". They got you to believe the word opportunity means getting rich, that success is measured by fame, power, and money, and the American Dream is no longer freedom to create a life for yourself and your family with a reasonable amount of safety and a future, but how you can get more stuff than your neighbor, or even better, your neighbors stuff.
This had led to a society where;
1) everything is disposable, even people
2) high Collar Crime is not a real crime, short, if any, jail time and 10% fine on money stolen
3) most of our technology, on the average, is lagging twenty years behind what we have "sitting on the shelf"
4) Politicians and "Captains of Industry" deserve all the money and extras they can lay their hands on
5) we actually believe that this is the best we can have right now
Where is our "World of the Future", because this sure ain't it, this America is not even the country we thought we were or EVER would be!
What a Cell Phone can do is amazing, what my car can do is not. The, soon-to-be-retired, Space Shuttle has the best insulation available, a brand new house has 1930's technology. I can get 1000 channels on cable, can't find one news agency to report the unbiased truth.
We have the technology and the ability to have a world even better than we imagined in the last century, but we settled for mediocre, not the best. We let them decide what our values were and what was acceptable for business, quality, price, politics, and behavior.
If America is the best country in the world, why is nothing we have the best?
