We live longer these days, and the average lifespan is over 75 years now. So there’s still a lot of people walking around who remember 1948. For them, 1948 is part of todays reality and gives them a broader basis for comparison between then and now, than those who joined life more recently. Also, of course, there are a lot more younger people than older ones due to casualties along the way.
We base our decisions on our experience, and since it’s the more inexperienced young who are the voting majority, we mostly end up with people who think like them as our leaders. This is why we have inexperienced leaders. Leaders whose mantra is Change.
In 1948, the population of California was about 10 million people. In 2008 it was 38 million, with millions of illegal aliens uncounted. The US population in 1948 was 146 million and today it’s 305 million with 30 to 40 million additional illegal aliens. This is the change over 60 years, less than an average Americans lifetime.
In 1948 there were no freeways as they weren’t needed. There was no traffic congestion in the cities. There was no smog or clean air issues. Today all that has changed, our population has expanded out across the deserts and mountains and anywhere there’s water or where water can be piped. We’ve paved and concreted over all the best land where all the animals and plants used to live and never noticed that they were disappearing as we took over their habitat for ourselves.
Today we’ve expanded so much that there’s no more room to expand, so we’re building up instead of out, people are living 20 and 30 to a house, the street traffic has slowed to a crawl, groceries have gotten expensive instead of cheap, crime has gone way up and our general quality of life is now on the way back down.
Part of this Change is from the Mexican invasion. As more of them flocked here to get a piece of the American Dream, that dream became just that much more diluted until now, ghettos they call barrios have risen across America.
Another Change came from giving all our manufacturing to China, with the result that jobs became scarcer here at the same time that the illegals were swarming here for jobs, while China has become much more militaristic and threatening with their new prosperity.
All this could have been avoided if the worlds leaders had looked to the past too, instead of just looking to the future.
The lessons of the past don’t die with the old, they die with the newly born.
There is simply no ability to grasp realities. Sometimes it seems the more intelligent people are, the more readily they embrace lunatic political philosophies.
Massive immigration is just one example, how often do we hear the “argument” that this is not a problem because our cultures are historically very mixed anyway. They do not have the simplest grasp of history to know that immigration caused collosal conflicts and problems then too, these only subsided after the differences became blurred with the passage of many generations.
There is not one single example of a culturally society that has ever worked, when we think they do (eg Brazil) it is only due to ignorance.