If you were to say to a physicist in 1899 that in 1999, a hundred years later. . . .bombs of unimaginable power would threaten the species;. . . .that millions of people would take to the air every hour in aircraft capable of taking off and landing without human touch;. . . .that humankind would travel to the moon, and then lose interest. . . .the physicist would almost certainly pronounce you mad. ~ Michael Crichton

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232 years ago, this is who we were. . .
"A republic, if you can keep it." ~ Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"

232 years later, this is what we have become. . .
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/war-...a-we-rule.html