Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs in Echo Park are almost incidental; they aren't used to comment on the action or round out the characters. The show is clearly a work in progress, so hopefully some full-fledged rap numbers will be added...
...nifty, the human stories that were tucked into the article were pretty awful. How horrifying to think one must always be connected to work, that getting that call or that e-mail is so important that you must immediately respond to it. How in the world can it be progress to give up all rights to a private life just because it's possible to do so? Are we turning into some sort of automaton consumers who live for commerce, or will we retain the spiritual and emotional qualities that make us something more than consuming machines? ROB GLASER Chicago...
...technology improve: medicine and hard-core pornography. And since I'm not sick yet, I'm pretty focused on the porn thing. Luckily I am not alone in my stunted vision of utopia. The desire for newer, better smut has long been a major impetus behind technological progress: VCRS, DVDS, Web development and I believe X-ray glasses were all spurred by prurient desires...
...about to be released, and it really brings into sharp focus not only the success of the last eight years, it's a validation of the basic strategy. It also puts into the sharp focus the big choices we have to make now in order to guarantee prosperity and progress, and the contrast is really quite clear. Governor Bush proposes to spend $1 trillion attempting to privatize Social Security and almost an additional $2 trillion on a huge tax plan that combined with the privatization plan would completely spend even the most expansive surplus estimates and more. And that...
...There's something happening out there. I think people are beginning to look at what is really at stake in our nation's decision on where we go from here. They like this prosperity and progress. They know that we need discipline in our policies in order to continue them. They know that it's unwise to spend money we don't have and put the prosperity and progress in jeopardy...