“Is there anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me… is there anyone at home?”
Crrow777“Hey… Who are you talking to? I am not sure, but they seem to know about everything.”
Big changes came to our world as the 1900s rolled in. When we look back at the previous century’s level of sophistication, education and nearly all facets of civilization, it is clear that these things did not carry forward and continue to improve in the 20th century. Quite the contrary, and I am zeroing in on WWI as a general dividing line between then and now. We have covered social engineering and its effects in the modern era, but is the first Great War as significant to world change as people like Steiner made it out to be? I am starting to accept that it was…and is.
In the first 40 years of the 20th century, we saw two World Wars, the rise of Communism, and the intentional crashing of the American economy. By the third decade of the 20th century, what is often called the “Rockefellerization” of our country came to be. In this, we lost medical systems that actually healed patients, and saw education set on a trajectory that has created the embarrassment we live in today, where the young cannot even read cursive writing or a wall clock! In these two examples alone, we see that the infrastructure and knowledge of better ways has been forgotten.