men who planned beyond tomorrow

[alocispepraluger102]

http://technologizer...ond-tomorrow/2/

a series of life magazine whiskey ads from around 1943 was strangely prescient.

too bad, the folks who want to plan today's tomorrows for us want to take us back to either 1776 or the 8th century,or turn us into mindless soulless servants of the state.

either way, you and i are sure losers.

some folks are ahead of their times. i choose to think of them as lonely orphans of the ages.

boyd meets stravinsky(1944)

Edited October 15, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[JSngry]

I tell you, the "movers and shakers" are easily thinking 5,10,15, even 20-30 years up the road & implementing strategies to move things along their way. I have "overheard" some things at certain gigs that would curdle your blood as to how manipulative they are (it's amazing how liquor and arrogance make people like musicians and other "help" invisible to certain people...like their words go no further than right in front of them). The most recent one was where "the red line" in Dallas was going to be in 2030, the "red line" being the dividing line between where white folk could safely avoid not being in the majority. These were real-estate people, not politicians, but to think that commerical & political concerns do not work off of each other would be abjectly naive.

That's why getting indignant about something that's already happened is like trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. It's all good and noble and "correct", but it's also....too late.

[alocispepraluger102]

I tell you, the "movers and shakers" are easily thinking 5,10,15, even 20-30 years up the road & implementing strategies to move things along their way. I have "overheard" some things at certain gigs that would curdle your blood as to how manipulative they are (it's amazing how liquor and arrogance make people like musicians and other "help" invisible to certain people...like their words go no further than right in front of them). The most recent one was where "the red line" in Dallas was going to be in 2030, the "red line" being the dividing line between where white folk could safely avoid not being in the majority. These were real-estate people, not politicians, but to think that commerical & political concerns do not work off of each other would be abjectly naive.

That's why getting indignant about something that's already happened is like trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. It's all good and noble and "correct", but it's also....too late.

thanks for the wise words, jim.

at a local level, that is most often the way it works.

at the national level, all i see on both political sides is plundering filthy opportunistic rats, whose only real concern is how to embellish and maintain their coffers, and those of their supporters, the public and national future be damned. it's been that way for at least 20 years, it seems.

what now passes for research and planning is to buy patents from business rivals and start ups, and cotton favor from government interests.

Edited October 15, 2011 by alocispepraluger102

[medjuck]

Wasn't tomorrow wonderful. At least Boyd Raeburn was.

[JSngry]

I tell you, the "movers and shakers" are easily thinking 5,10,15, even 20-30 years up the road & implementing strategies to move things along their way. I have "overheard" some things at certain gigs that would curdle your blood as to how manipulative they are (it's amazing how liquor and arrogance make people like musicians and other "help" invisible to certain people...like their words go no further than right in front of them). The most recent one was where "the red line" in Dallas was going to be in 2030, the "red line" being the dividing line between where white folk could safely avoid not being in the majority. These were real-estate people, not politicians, but to think that commerical & political concerns do not work off of each other would be abjectly naive.

That's why getting indignant about something that's already happened is like trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. It's all good and noble and "correct", but it's also....too late.

thanks for the wise words, jim.

at a local level, that is most often the way it works.

at the national level...

As Tip O'Neal sagely observed, all politics are local...and never moreso than today, especially in this regard.