Friday, March 21, 2008 |
09:02 - Our betters are socialist pricks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Time_Capsules
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It's amazing, the things you'll find randomly clicking around on Wikipedia. Here's something on the Westinghouse Time Capsules, buried in the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs in Flushing Meadows Park. They were sealed for 5000 years, along with instructions for how to decipher and reproduce the written and spoken English on many of the items inside.
One thing really took a whack at me, though. They stuck in some quotations for posterity from contemporary luminaries, and here's Albert Einstein's, which I'd just love to see anyone try to put on any kind of public work today:
Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilise power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire world through electric waves. However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganised so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Further more, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror. This is due to the fact that the intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority.
Dude. Don't have to be an ass about it.
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