"He'll be both a thug and a grammarian. He will be the WWE character I always wanted to be."
[Argh. I'm falling behind on entries and comments, cannot keep to a sentence limit, and am increasingly unsure why anyone would actually want to read what is basically "what I did today" reportage. Is this whole experiment worth it? I am dubious!]
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I dunno: we seem to have some kind of an edge on novelty candy and conspicuous consumption, too, but I'm not sure how those are going to propel us into the future.
Gore did offer some supporting arguments for his faith in perseverance, about how the more equal apportionment of work during World War II and the spirit of sacrifice after it eventually fueled our race for betterment generally and civil rights initiatives specifically. My problem is that it's very hard to see similar potential in American society today, which seems to have gone too far down the path of self-involvement, materialism, and anti-intellectualism to start caring about future generations soon enough to do them much good. I realize that my perspective is skewed by the fact that I'm seeing the present through a wider lens than historical retrospective, which mostly only lets the good bits through. But nor have I seen many developments in mainstream culture that seem like they'll stand as "good bits".
I did build rockets when I was a kid, though, and we're thinking of giving out some of them as a promotion for tor.com. I guess that's the kind of nostalgia I'm willing to get behind.
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