TheRealMafoo on 15 May 2009
| akuma587 said: Frankly, I don't think the Founding Fathers had any idea what the future would really be like. How could they? They didn't even have electricity. They lived in a world where it took three months to get from England to America. Today, we can get there in about 8 hours. That alone would have made them shit themselves. |
This is the biggest single difference between you and me. You think that somehow our technology has brought the world to some level incomprehensible to people 300 years ago.
People are no different today than they were back then. Not only could our forefather have an idea of what we would become, they predicted it with laser accuracy.
This statement is as true today, as it was when John Adams said it:
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. - John Adams
