The Future We Didn't Get

[ecosophia]

There are times when I wonder why so many people seem so freaky these days, and then I remember this. 

This is the future we were supposed to get.  Two generations of Americans grew up being told that this was what they could expect, in newspaper ads like this one and in countless other venues. Next time you go for a walk or even look out the window, compare what you see to the image above, and measure the gap between them. The cognitive dissonance between the future we were told we were going to get and the one that's actually arrived is, I think, the single largest cause of the collective nervous breakdown unfolding around us right now. 

Comments

[ecosophia]

Oh, of course. Nobody wants to deal with the fact that it never could have happened at all.

[brendhelm]

I think this may be the Bargaining stage. "Okay, fine, we're not progressing anymore, but it didn't HAVE to be this way; if we'd just done X, Y, and Z we'd have our flying cars and our jet packs and our Mars bases..."