Autopsy of a Superpower

Toffler warned us in 1970 with the book 'Future Shock' that society can not be changed at the rate we were changing it or people would go, for all intents and purposes, insane. Today his prediction has come to pass and a significant fraction of our population cannot tell what is real, don't believe in truth and may not even believe in reality.

We were only following our ideals, what a good public school education taught us, that life should be fair, that people should have equal rights under the law, that there should be equal pay for equal work. We believed our air and water should be clean. We believed that we should have freedom of clothing styles, hair styles and that we should be set free from status symbols. We had no idea how badly our ideals conflicted with human nature

But we also believed that women should have control of their own bodies and that they should have as much right to recreational sex as men. We believed that people of all races should have equal rights under the law, in the workplace and in other public places. That they should have the same rights to housing and mortgages, schools and grocery stores as anyone.

We didn't take into account how important status is in human life, in many cases, more important than life itself. We didn't know how much hate, anger and resentment those ideals would cause because those ideals lead to a huge loss of status by a very large segment of our population, White males. For two generations that hate and anger has been building until unleashed by a demagogue who will shortly use it to end democracy if he gets any chance at all. He has somewhere between 38 million and 75 million armed followers that we have driven insane to help him carry it out.