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I recall reading Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” after graduating from college in 1969. While impressed with his depth of thought and his ideas, I wasn’t sure just how prescient they would become. In “The great guide to the future that we got in 1970” (Ideas, Oct. 26), Jeff Hewitt writes of how the feeling of disorientation Toffler captured sounds awfully familiar today. As a liberal arts graduate, I appreciated Toffler’s highlighting the importance of “philosophy and logic” in managing the overwhelming rate of change that humankind is inevitably challenged to adapt to. When change occurred in incremental segments, adaptation was more manageable. What Toffler may not have accounted for is the rogue actor whose reason for being is the destruction of all that gets in the way of his devouring ego. Progress and problem-solving are casualties of our current commander in chief’s actions. He feeds his skepticism of science and global warming to his MAGA cult as the anti-liberal red meat they crave.
