The Daily Sentence

Shakespeare's Miranda, in Act V, Scene I of The Tempest stated:

Oh wonder!


How many goodly creatures are there here!  How beauteous mankind is!  Oh brave new world!  That has such people in it!

—and Emile Zola in his Germinal wrote:  He laughed at his earlier idealism, his schoolboy vision of a brave new world in which justice would reign and men would be brothers.

—and in Kipling's The Gods of the Copybook Headings we find these words:  And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins...

—and Yevgeny Zamyatin said:  By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.

—and Aldous Huxley stated that:  Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

—and George Orwell groaned that:  All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

—and Frank Herbert came to the epiphany that:  The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

—and now, I conclude that the future is terrifying, in that to manifest itself, the past must die—what we are must pass quietly into the night, forgotten by the light of a new day—to become obsolescent is not a contingent event but an inevitability—thus, the brilliant futurist Ray Kurzweil frantically preaches that: We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene. -Aaron DeWeese