Jack’s Winning Words 1/23/14
“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”  (Omar Bradley)  Prudence means, being cautious.  53 years ago, in his farewell speech as President, Eisenhower warned the nation to be cautious about the influence of the military-industrial complex.  Wise advice from a former army general.  Not being prudent can cause many kinds of problems.    ;-)  Jack

 FROM HONEST JOHN:  Sometimes that military-industrial complex statement is misunderstood Eisenhower meant the military and the in industry that supports the military of course that is exactly what the Reagan revolution is about building up both of those.====JACK:  People believe what they think they understand about the Bible and religion, too.

 FROM TRIHARDER:  The Terminator.====JACK:  Do you mean that Ike was warning us about the coming of Arnold Schwarzenegger?====TH:  Yes! And HG Wells. And George Orwell and Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, The Matrix====JACK:  Don't forget the bogeyman.

 FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  A good example is the IRS and the phone and email messages.  That's frightening.  I don't have anything to say that would cause national alarms to go off, but this is still a free country.  Our whole way of life has changed for the better and for the worst, with cellphones and computers. ====JACK:  You were raised in a time when "privy" really meant privy.====JUDY:  Well, not really but I did use one all the time at Girl Scout Camp.  That was when Girl Scouts learned how to live with nature.  Now Girl Scouts learn vocations.  It's a lot different.  Times change things but not always for the better.  I think kids aren't giving enough "Kid Time":  just for fun time!  It's organized groups now not just someone coming up to the door and  yelling "Judy Judy" come out and play.

 FROM SBP IN FLORIDA:  An interesting article in this week's The Economist regarding the potentially dire, if relatively temporary, consequences ever-improving, advancing technological advances portend....as job displacement did in the Industrial Revolution and what we witness to virtually every day. Can prudence and wisdom,if they really exist in this arena, stem the tide or....My bet is that we have no choice but to "go with the flow"...and become...====JACK:  So, you read the Economist, too?  Great magazine!  I was interested in the article on the Future of Jobs and a comparison with the Luddites of the Industrial Revolution.

 FROM BM IN MICHIGAN:  Like spying on our allies’ leaders cell phones?====JACK:  I suppose it's necessary to keep some things secret.  It happens in many areas of life.   There's a need for a military-industrial complex.  Just be cautious.  There is a need for secrecy.  Just be cautious.

 FROM TARMART REV:  "Prudence" . . . from the pulpit throughout the pews!!====JACK:  Not being prudent in your preaching can be perilous.====REV:  A "precious pontificate proclamation!"

 FROM PH IN MESA:  Read the book Washington Rules by Andrew Basevich (spell?)  the military industrial complex that Ike warned about is here, I fear.====JACK:  It won't go away, because it means jobs, and congressmen are unwilling to sacrifice jobs in their district for "a cause."

 FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  If the technology can be used to make a better world, that would be the ideal.  It is an amazing world in which we live and must learn to adapt. My OLLI class today was about  Nikola Tesla, most of which I don.t understand about AC and DC currency, but his life and work are very interesting.====JACK:  I wonder how many people know the significance of the name of the Tesla electric automobile?