“..I have no doubt that, all over the world, hundreds of pleasure resorts similar to the one described above are now being planned, and perhaps are even being built. It is unlikely that they will be finished-world events will see to that-but they represent faithfully enough the modern civilised man’s idea of pleasure. Something of […]
Quotes
Some quotes, future forcasts, from Strategic Trends 2007-2036
“Kamal, that’s like totally boring !!!” So, I am reading “Strategic Trends 2007-2036” a document of near future forecasts made by the UK’s Ministry of Defense DCDC Directorate General. I’m also reading a few other interesting bureaucratic pearls that I might post about later. So, you should check it out. Why? Well, I find it […]
Quote for 21, November 2009
Why am I a history nerd? Part of my unremitting drive to know truth and reality I guess. There is a power in knowing history. A thought provoking quote from a most interesting character: “..Prudent men are wont to say – and this is not rashly or without good ground – that he who would […]
Redux on the Club of Rome [Edited]
Some folks out there were, a wee bit, curious about the quote I posted from the Club of Rome’s Alexander King &co., and wanted to know more about the book I cited it from, and about Club itself. So here you go. As for the book, the quotation came from “The First Global Revolution” – […]