[Vision2020] Southern Fantasy

[John D]

Michael <metzler at moscow.com> wrote:
  
  > Thanks for the note.  Idealizing the past is precisely what I 
  > intended not to communicate in my short response.  I think that
  > both the north and the south had a more respectable culture 
  > than the one we live in now. This was merely a weak comparison. 
  > It was a time a bit more saturated with fidelity, honor, 
  > morality, discipline, respect, love, chastity, beauty, 
  > architecture, religion, love of God, etc.  The land was not as 
  > filled with idolatry, hatred, bitterness, disloyalty, adultery, 
  > infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism, immorality, 
  > relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety, and 
  > just about any cultural non-good the western world spent 1500 
  > years enumerating. That’s all I was referring to.
  
  
  
  Since 1850, life expectancy in the US has risen from around 40 years to around 75 years:
  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
  
  Since 1865, vacines have been developed against anthrax, diphtheria,  hepatitis, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, rabies, rubella, tetanus,  tuberculosis, and yellow fever.
  We now have, among others, antibiotics, the germ theory of disease, the  defibrillator, the artificial heart, in vitro fertilisation, an  understanding of human blood types and vitamins, and the human genome  has been mapped.
  Since 1865, humanity has invented or discovered the air conditioner,  the automobile, barbed wire, the birth control pill, the cathode ray  tube, color photography, the compact disc, computed tomography, the  computer, the dishwasher, dynamite, the dynamo, the electric motor,  e-mail, fiber optics, the Geiger counter, the Global Positioning  System, the gramophone record, the helicopter, the integrated circuit,  the laser, the Internet, the jet engine, the light-emitting diode, the  liquid fuel rocket, magnetic resonance imaging, the magnetic tape  recorder, the microprocessor, the microwave oven, molecular biology,  the motor cycle, nuclear energy, the pipeline, the pneumatic hammer,  the pocket calculator, polymers, radar, television, radio  communication, the radio telescope, the remote control, satellites, the  seismograph, the spectrophotometer, stainless steel, the steam turbine,  the telephone, the traffic light, the transistor, ultrasonography, the  vacuum cleaner,!
  the
 washing machine, and the wind tunnel.
  
  I think we're better of in 2005 than in 1850.
  

		
---------------------------------
 Yahoo! Personals
 Single? There's someone we'd like you to meet.
Lot's of someone's, actually. Yahoo! Personals
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20051127/d56eb97a/attachment.htm