Many great speeches...................

 

.............have been totally forgotten or ignored.  None more so than this read-worthy one.    A brief snippet:

Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we - you and I, and our government - must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

thanks Michael

warned......................

 

But a value system which glorifies wealth and accumulation, which builds itself on a platform of want, which inflames and creates more of it daily through a marketing machine that colonizes the human mind—this is what every spiritual tradition in history has warned against, and with good reason.

-Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

incompatible.....................

 Allowing a small number of technologists and financiers to dominate a huge portion of the economy and the information pipeline, and to monetize every aspect of human behavior, seems incompatible with democratic self-determination.

-Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class