Feeling optimistic about the human condition

[DanS]

Couldn't lead his way out of a paper sack.

[onodera]

Sorry. I should have made that more clear. One of Reagan's best qualities as a leader was his eternal optimism wrt America and americans. IMO, that was just the attitude that the country needed after the natural disaster known as Jimmy Carter. I see a parallel between the america-bashing attitudes of Obama and Carter but I dont see another Reagan 'on the horizon'. Instead, all we have are another crop of the same old ****, some of whom try to associate themselves with Reagan but who fall far short.

I'm not that familiar with the US politics, but why was Carter a disaster? The only dumb things he's done were handling the Iranian revolution and the Afghan war. Otherwise he's no worse than Obama.

[SpencerH]

Ah, I see. Well, he sure isn't in the White House.

Sorry. I should have made that more clear. One of Reagan's best qualities as a leader was his eternal optimism wrt America and americans. IMO, that was just the attitude that the country needed after the natural disaster known as Jimmy Carter. I see a parallel between the america-bashing attitudes of Obama and Carter but I dont see another Reagan 'on the horizon'. Instead, all we have are another crop of the same old ****, some of whom try to associate themselves with Reagan but who fall far short.

[Al B. Sure!]

Whatever. The point is SOMEBODY here didn't know about it so KH is being an *******.

[DanS]

Who said I didn't know about it?

[Al B. Sure!]

Onodera and DanS didn't know about it so suck it.

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/192165-Greatest-Website-Ever

[KrazyHorse]

gapminder is the ****. I've advertised that website on Apolyton many times.

Thanks for sharing. It's such a secret nobody would have known before you

[KrazyHorse]

It's amazing what the human race has managed to do for itself in only 200 years

[DanS]

Ah, I see. Well, he sure isn't in the White House.

[Elok]

I believe RR is meant to be "Ronald Reagan," famous optimist and senile-man-in-charge-of-gigantic-nuclear-arsenal.

[Aeson]

Living lives that were nasty, brutish, and short.

I initially read this "nasty, british, and short"...

[DanS]

I've been thinking along the same lines recently. Where is the present day RR ?

RR?

It's interesting to note that in the US, for every year that goes by, the life expectancy increases by about 1/3rd of a year, IIRC.

[DanS]

Wow, what were we doing before 1810?

Living lives that were nasty, brutish, and short.

[Al B. Sure!]

Wow, what were we doing before 1810?

Such is the power of industrialization, a singularity which ignited exponential improvements in the human condition.

[Tupac Shakur]

Wow, what were we doing before 1810?

America was only just starting to show the rest of the world the way forward.