Humanity behind on social evolution
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Editor,
As we consider Thoreau’s maxim about quietly desperate lives and his admonition to the masses to simplify, we should also contemplate the current state of the body politic: contentious. Hopefully the leadership class will find the paths of compromise that can lead us back to fiscal stability. Meanwhile, the Wall Street crowd, the so-called “masters of the universe,” with their elastic algorithms and unfettered bravado, have managed the fine art of privatizing the gains while socializing the losses. In the face of their unconscionable chicanery, is it any wonder that there has been very little funding for things like pension plans and social programs?
The late President Truman once notably said, “the only thing new in the world is the history you haven’t read.”
Within the context of dissolution of empires, Truman’s comment seems very apt indeed. Perhaps humanity’s social evolution can catch up with that of its technological. .
Virgil Hess
Polson
