tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post5950738162011326489..comments2023-11-05T04:04:54.585-05:00Comments on DRAMA QUEEN!: "Back to the Future"Uncle Sydney 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-62914125365937016462011-03-13T15:04:34.854-04:002011-03-13T15:04:34.854-04:00We're supposedly living in a "post-indust...We're supposedly living in a "post-industrial" age. In practice what this means is that our industrial activities have been off-shored to where labor is cheap, and we've long since abandoned our old manufacturing base to corrode into a Rust Belt. In a few generations we will indeed be post-industrial: but not in the way that is popularly imagined. <br /><br />So much for the Space Age. At least we can still be back-to-the-land hippies, if we really want it.Zaeknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-53549889155917472482011-03-13T03:57:20.326-04:002011-03-13T03:57:20.326-04:00I'll say it again,...I hate the 21st century.I'll say it again,...I hate the 21st century.Uncle Sydney 2012https://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-82174015892372507022011-03-13T00:15:41.715-05:002011-03-13T00:15:41.715-05:00Give us back our future again!
I notice the wing...Give us back our future again! <br /><br />I notice the winged space ship - the sort of shuttle that us plebes were supposed to eventually ride into orbit - is marked "Pan American." Remember the cartoon ads with the toucan lounging on the wing and airily declaring "Pan Am - the <b><i>only</i></b> way to fly!"? It still shocks me that the company folded long ago.Zaeknoreply@blogger.com