A look back to the future the way it was viewed in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The future was better back then.
What happened to it? I think our culture began to disintegrate when we quit believing. I grew up believing in everything--visitors from outer space, monsters from the lagoon, big foot, the loch ness monster--it was all possible. It even gave something to adults, a glimmer of hope, perhaps. Anything might happen.
Once that was all gone, cynicism and sarcasm replaced irony. And though Dick Tracy watches, X-Ray glasses, and shoe phones are now all a reality, we have no belief. We are simply worn out with it all.
How I love the future past. Passed.
Those ads are great...I get nostalgic for the past in many ways...
ReplyDelete"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." - Paul Valery
ReplyDeleteThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. - Jack London
ReplyDeleteI should have titled the entry "Historic Future."
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