New and Improved Nonsense!

Muck and Mystery:

He [Bryan Appleyard] is one of many that have a vision problem, they have their future-scopes wrong way round and so things in the distance aren't magnified and more visible as if they were nearer, they are reduced and less visible as if they were farther away. See dnE ehT ... toN for a discussion of this intellectual defect from a couple of winters ago. The core argument of that old post applies here too and is worth repeating.

Each generation has its pessimists and they're mercilessly proven wrong by time.

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