Whoever walked the grounds of the 1939 World’s Fair saw a new vision of the future that was a showpiece of science, engineering, and art in mutual embrace of progress.
“The World of Tomorrow” was a model world of smooth efficiency, assembled in sweeping geometric forms articulated in steel, masonry, glass, and plastic. Popular sci-fi, as late as Star Trek, was hooked on the 1930s archetypes of modern human habitat. Of course, modern minds, not just bodies, would live in this modern world. And so the demise of old molds and the creation of new molds for the brain was part of the strategic planning for the future.
I was too young then to apprehend this hidden, dark side of modernity that coupled the evolution of things with the evolution of people. The mad-scientist horror movies that abounded in the 1930s and 1940s were cartoons you might say of this dehumanizing, […]
Read the Whole Article From the Source: www.americanthinker.com
- Gold SKYROCKETED during Trump’s first term and is poised to do it again. Find out how Genesis Precious Metals can help you secure your retirement with a proper self-directed IRA backed by physical precious metals.