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19 Comments
Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 7:07 am

I believe that quote was misattributed.

That was actually Kamala Harris.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 7:08 am

Add – Remember History. Without this we become Eloi , food for the Morlocks

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
December 18, 2023 10:04 am

Your unborn are already being used as ingredients.

Crawfisher
Crawfisher
December 18, 2023 8:04 am

I work with Mfg plants to help them improve. Believe it or not one of the hardest jobs is to get people to change (unlearn old and learn new) after doing the same for 20 to 30 years.
Several times I encounter ‘leaders’ who just can’t change, very sad.

Htos1av
Htos1av
  Crawfisher
December 18, 2023 8:38 am

Like we told Sears around 1995, to look out for Amazon, AND Sears had a TEN YEAR head start on Amazon with infrastructure, customer service, sales, delivery fleets, etc, ONLY needed a few servers…but what could we inventors of TCP-IP networking even KNOW????

Jeff
Jeff
  Htos1av
December 18, 2023 11:02 pm

I miss getting the Sears catalogs in the mail several times a year. They knew what people wanted and understood what value meant.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Crawfisher
December 18, 2023 7:56 pm

As we’ve seen too many times in corporate America, change is often instituted that has no need nor any rational basis for its existence … and the corporations (and, oftentimes, the rest of US) pay dearly for such agendas.

For example: ‘New Coke’ cost Coca-Cola more than $2 billion in financial losses; Ford Motor has admitted to losing about $40,000+ per EV it sells — thankfully, they’re making it up in the volume — and has revised their expected losses for the current fiscal year from $3 Billion to $4.5+ Billion …

Change is inevitable … growth — a positive outcome — is optional.

Jeff
Jeff
  Anthony Aaron
December 18, 2023 11:04 pm

What the world really needs is a battery powered Edsel. Gonna put that idea on a postcard and send it to Dearborn.

Htos1av
Htos1av
December 18, 2023 8:32 am

Glad I read “Future Shock” so young, it hardly made sense, that would explain why NOTHING bothers from the feds and “power” today. THEY are the “agents of chaos” he tiptoed around throughout the whole book…he was a lefty, too.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Htos1av
December 18, 2023 10:12 am

Good old Newt , in it with Toffler. Newt was always talking about an EMP event as well.

“Nationalism is… First wave. The globalization of business and finance by advancing Third Wave economies routinely punctures the national “sovereignty” the nationalists hold so dear…” “The Third Wave… demassifies culture, values, and morality… There are more diverse religious belief systems.” “The Consitution of the United States needs to be reconsidered and altered… to create a whole new structure of government…” The Tofflers say fundamentalist, biblical Christianity is “both dangerous and regressive.” Beliefs in nationalism, patriotism, and an exclusive God, “give birth to violence or repression.” Only when these “Dark Age” menaces are swept away can “advanced wealth creation” by the elite be achieved.
Newt Gingrich Mason, member of both the World Future Society and the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote the forward to Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s Creating a New Civilization

https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm

mark
mark
  Htos1av
December 18, 2023 3:55 pm

I read three of Tofflers’s lofty books starting with ‘Future Shock’ young and hungry for peering into the future while my mold was forming and hardening. Over my head at the time but intriguing.

When I found Peter Drucker I knew I had found a more practical mentor whose insights and wisdom I could adapt and actually use in my corporate career.

A Comprehensive List of Books Authored by Management Guru Peter F. Drucker

But when I wanted to lean my one man independent ladder against my own wall and I read ‘Good to Great’ as an independent Subject Matter Expert (consultant) I used it as a true north compass road map for 15 years leading to a successful retirement. The single most useful business book I had ever read.

https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html

flash
flash
December 18, 2023 8:36 am

Gonna’ need a bigger sportsball network.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 9:27 am

Brilliant!

BL
BL
December 18, 2023 11:37 am

That covers the Democraps, Repugnants, liberal commie joos, MAGA crowd, really most of the population.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 2:04 pm

Ho hi, ho hi,
Off to work go I….

Unlearning is a tough class.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
December 18, 2023 10:46 pm
Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
December 18, 2023 8:00 pm

The author tries to tell US that ‘unlearning’ is hard to come by … and, yet, over the past 15+ years, more than 2/3 of the US adult population ‘unlearned’ what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are about … and how they apply to US and the Individual Freedom and Liberty we (used to) enjoy … willingly sacrificing not only their fellow men and women and children to the various government tyrants willing to kill US if they have to or can … but also villifying their fellow men and women and children for deciding to not go along with the dangerous and ignorand masses that would persecute them to the death if possible.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anthony Aaron
December 18, 2023 10:46 pm

Milk thru nose funny!

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 10:42 pm

Sick fucking iterates!