(January 26, 2017 at 12:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Just as a plaurality of the third world is rising out of third world status. At the end of the 21st century, the hipster youths of china, India and Africa who could never be bothered with knowing anything that happened before 2080 would laugh in contemptuous dismissal at the any suggestion that the backward theocratic hellhole of midlatitude North America may ever have had any pretense to international significance in science, economy or geopolitics since, like, that Spanish Magellan dude. Or was that Colombo.
Magellan? You could have used Neil Armstrong or Edmund Hillary, at least they had the distinction of completing their journey. Despite our vocal evangelicals, the U.S. can hardly be considered a backward theocratic hellhole. Like it or not, our contribution to science, economy and geopolitics will not soon be forgotten; certainly not by your future hipsters only a scant 83 years from now. Hyperbole is only effective as long as it maintains some semblance of truth.
