The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.
Their big idea was that the world was about to change faster than it ever had before, creating a technological explosion that would frighten and baffle the masses -- much like the bewildering VCR clock. The government would have to have advisers and committees in order to ease the transition.
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This is exactly why I have also been saying that Newt cannot help being Newt. He talks about all the dumb things he’s done, even recently, but still goes on doing them. He cannot think things through to see any consequences, apparently, but then he apologizes for things he does as being dumb. That’s nice, and had it been a couple isolated incidences several years ago, then I’d be saying let’s let bygones be bygones and move forward. But he continually does this stuff. Infuriates the YOU KNOW WHAT out of everybody. Let him get the nomination and he trips up... a lot of people would stay home November 2012. I just know it. He sounds good, but soundbites do not make a man/leader. We have ample evidence of that DAILY.
Ann, Ann, Ann....WHY are you pushing Romney??????
Looking over the field, I’ve got..the funk.
I was so looking forward to the Nov. 2012 election.
Now, argh!
That’s nice, Ann. Now tell us about Mitt Romney.
Alvin Toffler published Future Shock in 1970, when he was 41 or 42. He wrote most of it in the 1960s when very few people had VCRs.
I don't actually disagree with her much about the Tofflers or Newt Gingrich, but this habit of treating everyone she disagrees with disrespectfully for cheap laughs can be pretty grating.
“An air of mystery surrounds Coulter’s age. She says she is 38 but her publicist puts her at 40. After the interview, she sends me an email: ‘I think you should go with one of the incorrect younger ages.’
“At the moment, she is without a boyfriend; curiously, her last beau happened to be a Muslim. ‘The relationship was complicated by his interest in committing jihad,’ she jokes. ‘I took away his box cutters. At first, I thought he was a terrorist. I just kept on running into this handsome Muslim on the street. He was a fan of mine.’
“So was he stalking her? ‘He was, but he was a good-looking stalker. I'd been so looking for one of those.’
“Coulter is still searching for Mr. Right-Wing. ‘I've been engaged many times. Four, I think. But I'm not like every other American. I thought I'd meet the right person before getting married and having children.’
“Who were these dumped fiancés? ‘Oh, I don't even remember all of them. I really don't think about exes five minutes after they've gone.’”
Ann is another Laura Ingraham — a bitter, menopausal spinster who can't attract and keep a mate. She remembers everytying about her exes and is taking out on anyone & everyone.
Ann couldn’t lean further left if she broke a heel.
Chris Christie?
Romney?
I’m voting Perry, but I’d support Gingrich if he wins the primary.
Gingrich was quite the cult-guru after the 1994 elections, and blew a lot of the gains in the following year or two.
And he didn’t seem to “get better” in the years after that.
I hope he’s “gotten better” since. :-)
Ping
That's an interesting argument. Forty years ago, when Future Shock first came out some critics pointed out that if you'd been born in the 19th century before railroads and telegraphs and lived to see automobiles, airplanes, and telephones you'd have seen more change than most 20th century people had.
And that holds true in what's happened since. If you were born in the late 19th century and survived into the mid-20th century you'd have seen more change than those of us who were born in the late 20th century and lived into the early 21st.
It's an interesting argument, but do people really make the comparison? And isn't it pretty subjective? The first people to get telephones and phonographs used them in a very limited way. The development of cell phones and smart phones was a major change from what our parents or grandparents knew, even if the installation of that first phone a century ago was a major historical milestone.
Yeah, we could go with Perry who openly welcomes Muslims and helps them build Mosques. Or maybe Santorum who strongly exudes mush. Maybe Huntsman who thinks Obama is an all right guy? We got a mess this time. It think Newt will end up the nominee.
Since Ann wants Romney to win (and possibly be one of his plural wives) I think she has lost all credibility to speak on the issue....she is biased and won’t admit it.
BTW - I remember reading “Future Shock” circa 1971 while still in High School. It was an interesting book about how the knowledge spiral was occuring. The time “knowledge” doubled was growing smaller and smaller. I don’t remember there being anything in it that was big government. However, I was probably 17 at the time.
More than anything else, that was responsible for Newt's downfall.
Newt never saw it coming, and he had no answer when it did.
He's learned nothing from that lethal mistake.
In 2011, he still has no instant response team in place and no national strategy to counter the Hard Left media onslaught which is coming.
LOL! Thank you Ann!
Ann Coulter: this time right, but for the wrong reason.
Still no to Romney, Ann.
Haha! I remember the Tofflers and Ann nails them here. I haven’t thought about any of this stuff in a long time. But she is right-on about Newt in the respect that he is a sap for future-schlock razmataz and grand ideas. In this respect, Newt bears some liknesss to Al Gore, believe it or not. Gore is just a little more sinister about it where Newt is just downright daffy.
Somehow this reminded me of when Newt wanted to give a laptop computer, paid for by federal tax dollars, of course, to every school child in America. And that was back when laptops cost like $5,000 each!
Then in the next minute he was talking about how desperately the country needed to cut massive social programs.
It was a trip if you were there.