A Lot Hasn't Changed In The Last Hundred Or So Years.

NOTHING IS DIFFERENT


If all you read is mainstream press (Or even worse, you get all of your "news" from television!) you might be of the impression that a lot has changed in the last century. While there have been minor improvements (The innovations of Louis Pasteur come to mind.) and some entertaining distractions (The industrial revolution, Where's Waldo?, et al.) during the last hundred years, for the most part life is still as dreary and arbitrarily brutal as when we lived in trees.

FOR INSTANCE


Tomorrow morning I will wake up and shave faster and more efficiently then my parents or grandparents could ever dream. I will drive my car to my loveless job. My dad had to walk to his job; my grandfather had to crawl to his, with my grandmother on his back. At my job, I'll suck my bosses dick for a few hours, and then maybe have mine sucked by this or that underling.