Half of those that posted today, would have to look that up. And half of those, don't have the attention span, to look it up. I mean.. really. wait until you read it all
President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge So he told them his scheme for a saviour machine
They called it "The Prayer", it's answer was law It's logic stopped war, gave them food How they adored till it cried in its boredom "Please don't believe in me, please disagree with me Life is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible now Or maybe a war, I may kill you all"
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn, so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a saviour machine
I need you flying, and I'll show that dying Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn, so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a saviour machine
Every job is at risk of being replaced by a joke. Relatively speaking a huge amount of people are today paid for what they'd basically be doing anyway.
In the old days it was a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it, and that somebody was near enough everybody up until the second half of the 20th century. And then there's been a dwindling number of resourcefully employed people from there.
The sons and daughters of the resourcefully employed now find themselves in the employment of McDonald’s. But even the ordinary American doubling in size can’t keep you flipping burgers forever
“The world’s now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason’s obvious. There’s nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!” ? Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
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