another zinger!
what a day!
Fantastic!
read something interesting today... it took 30 million years for technology to progress from chipped stone tools to the first iron, but only 3000 years from the first iron to the atom bomb. The speed at which progress is...well...progressing...is frightening. think about it. throughout human history, people would live their entire lives, and not see any cultural change, significant or otherwise. not until about 300 years ago could cultural change be measured by an individual within their own lifetime. think about our own lives. my dad has seen progress from horse and buggie through atom bomb, space race, satellites, internet...things are going so fast. I think about the changes within my own short life, the '80's to now...culture itself has morphed. it seems like time is going so fast, that it's beginning to collapse in on itself.
just a little food for thought, before I indulge in some more sparkle cake!
Cha cha cha!
Twizzle~
Fantastic!
read something interesting today... it took 30 million years for technology to progress from chipped stone tools to the first iron, but only 3000 years from the first iron to the atom bomb. The speed at which progress is...well...progressing...is frightening. think about it. throughout human history, people would live their entire lives, and not see any cultural change, significant or otherwise. not until about 300 years ago could cultural change be measured by an individual within their own lifetime. think about our own lives. my dad has seen progress from horse and buggie through atom bomb, space race, satellites, internet...things are going so fast. I think about the changes within my own short life, the '80's to now...culture itself has morphed. it seems like time is going so fast, that it's beginning to collapse in on itself.
just a little food for thought, before I indulge in some more sparkle cake!
Cha cha cha!
Twizzle~
posted by mercurysmile at 11:33 PM
8 Comments:
I lub sneet!
wotchu think are the five most important cultural developments (to you) in the last, let's say, 50 years?
1. internet... that's about as far as i go.
uuuummmm......
in no particular order:
Internet,Gene therapy/mapping, cloning (and scary mad scientist medicine, in general...), first woman in supreme court of Canada (1982), and.....SLURPEES!
Totally slurpees! How many times have slurpees made the difference between getting through the day and never leaving your house again?!
oh FMR, like a million! let me tell you, last night a slurpee saved my life!
i think gene mappin be damned! i say.. um... QUEER THEORY. queer theory saved my life last night.
that's not true, i just wanted you to take me seriously. that's all i ask!!!
you are awesome, nix!
change is the new stability.
now where's my f-ing slurpee?
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