Dana at this link:
Every generation’s politics is based on economics. In every generation we find new ways to organize ourselves to create more productivity, more progress, more wealth. We still farm cotton, we still build Fords, and we still have offices.
But the way to greater wealth lies in combining the vast computing resources created in the last generation with minds which can do what computers can’t. It’s man and thinking machine, working together, that will build the Abundant Society our children will live and work in.
If you are not learning, if you’re not constantly trying to think outside the box you live in, you’re no longer part of the future, but the past.
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The most used Dylan text is, of course:
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
“$188 worth of parts, manufactured in a plant where workers tend to commit suicide, hitched to America’s worst cell phone network. But this is not how Steve Jobs pitches it….”
This difficulty cannot be overstated, and it’s been going on for decades. Someone very special to me is a Gulf War veteran who recently hit rock bottom in his life. He’s been out of battle for nearly 20 years and seemingly fighting against the tide since then. He was not seriously wounded in war except for maybe some form of Gulf War syndrome caused by all the shit they were injected with. But his biggest problem is the PTSD. He never thought he had that – he thought other people, the ones you could tell were in bad condition just by the way they looked, were the ones actually suffering. So he kept his problems to himself as much as he could, but they’d force their way out anyway.
