[knarf]

I agree with the old school

America will be salvaged if and when we go back to THINKING like we're a Noeman Rockwell illustration.

We LOVED that view of ourselves and really wanted to BE that America.

In many ways we were ... but not as idealistically as portrayed

Still ... it was the idea of the great idea that we loved

[ClearCase_guy]

I think there is much to that. If we had flying cars today, and lunar colonies, and if intergalactic spaceships were on the the drawing board, then I might see technology as taking us somewhere good. But that isn't my world.

I'm a tech guy. It's how I make my living.

And so much of today's tech is facebook, twitter, and porn. Today's technology really ISN'T making our lives better.

I think we need to stop. Slow things down. And really ask ourselves if the Norman Rockwell vision is something we might want to get back to. Or is the Obamacare website really the future we've always dreamed about?

[lee martell]

Absolutely. Society is better off when we have high expectations of ourselves and of each other. We achieve more when the majority of us strive to high standards, vs settling for ‘barely adequate’. That may mean we have to revert to the more tedious, time consuming methods, the same methods that have worked for centuries.

[boxlunch]

Beautifully said. I agree with old school too. Something extremely degenerate has happened to the good old America. How can we get it back?