There's a hunger to return to what people have for thousands of years known is really the "right" way to live.
Next thing we know you'll be protesting at the IMO meeting with the anti-progress crowd. <g>
Trend lines don't go in a straight line and there are always some fits and starts, and some contrarians, but I don't think that this genie will go back into the bottle short of a cataclysm, which is always possible. Failing that, the trend line will hold. IMO.
I think you're right about the developing world, but as long as we're the 800 pound gorilla, which will probably be for a while, it doesn't really matter. Besides, pop music and affluence will get most of them on the trend line, too, sooner or later.
But, of course, we'll have to wait for a while to find out.
Karen
P.S. This comment about Bush's speech in Friday's Tom Shales comment seems appropriate to this discussion, too.
<<Bush's speech seemed like something people might look back on in 50 or 100 years as a quaint sign of simpler times, before cloning became common and stem cell research had helped cure many of humanity's most pernicious diseases>> |
