Theme: “The Future’s Open Wide”

💬 Quote Library — containing “The Future’s Open Wide”

Imagine What You’ll Know Tomorrow

Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

To Change Something, Build a New Model

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

All Progress Depends on the Unreasonable Man

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

📖 Excerpts Library

The Greatest Change in the Mind of Man Since the Dawn of Creation

It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty

Novus Ordo Seclorum

The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington

Some Catastrophic and Catalyzing Event

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

2001 Is a Nonverbal Experience

Playboy: One critic even called 2001 “the first Nietzschean film,” contending that its essential theme is Nietzsche’s concept of man’s evolution from ape to human to superman. What was the metaphysical message of 2001? Kubrick: It’s not a message that...

A Perfect Secular Order Will Emerge

Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington

🎼 Song Excerpts

Just ’Round the Corner, There’s a Change in Design

I found out what it is that's been driving me mad - There's no room to breathe between the good and the bad - A crush in-between, there's a thin, thin line - But just 'round the corner, there's a change in design

Is This a Road Going Nowhere?

Is this a road going nowhere? Or is someone leading us somewhere?

I Feel That Ice Is Slowly Melting

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting - Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

It’s Time to Begin, Isn’t It?

It's time to begin, isn't it?

Never Looking Down, I’m Just in Awe of What’s in Front of Me

Never looking down, I'm just in awe of what's in front of me

When the World Has Gone to Sleep, You Gotta Get Up

In the latest midnight hour, when the world has gone to sleep, you gotta get up

Welcome to the New Age

Welcome to the new age, to the new age - Welcome to the new age, to the new age

The Horizon Has Been Defeated by the Pirates of the New Age

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age

I’m Waking Up, I Feel It in My Bones

I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones - Enough to make my system blow

A Science Fiction Showcase

In our short years, we come long way, to treat it bad and throw it - And if we make a little space, a science fiction showcase

Taking That Ride to Nowhere

We're on a ride to nowhere, come on inside - Taking that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride

Where the World’s Headed, Nobody Knows

So, 'round and around and around we go - Where the world's headed, nobody knows

Where We’re Gonna Stop Nobody Knows

Round and round and round and round we go - Where we're gonna stop nobody knows

Teach the Children Quietly

Teach the children quietly For some day sons and daughters Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Season Is Calling

Listen to reason, season is calling

Things Will Start Separating Come 2025

Just fifty more years we're all gonna know - Why, when, where, how, and who gets to go - So let's all have a good time before the great divide - 'Cause things will start separating come 2025

They’re Not Sure Just What We Have in Store

Double cross the vacant and the bored - They're not sure just what we have in store

Here Comes the Sun

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo... Here comes the sun, and I say it's all right

The Smiles Returning to the Faces

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

Things Have Been Dark for Too Long

I'm standing here on the ground - The sky above won't fall down - See no evil in all directions - Resolution of happiness - Things have been dark for too long