Re: Missed It By That Much

On Apr 21, 4:06=A0pm, MajorOz <Majo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 3:46 pm, nebu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 So I'm curious in other predictions that are almost
dead=
-on, but
> > that miss just a tiny bit in how things did turn out.
>
> Although more philosophical than having to do with "things", I would
> submit that a number of authors, Heinlein principally among them, were
> right on when they predicted that people worldwide would:
> 1. Trade personal freedom for perceived security
> 2..Follow charismatic, well spoken, but despotic leaders
> 3. Abandon logic, science, and reason for superstition, myth, and
> religious fanaticism.

But those were predictions:  they were observations, no more or less
true today than fifty years ago.