interesting times

may you live in interesting times goes the ancient curse. I read yesterday that there were periods of a million years where stone tools never changed or evolved, essentially you were using the same hammer your neanderthal uncle used to beat dinosaurs to death (so to speak) in our times we have seen more change in 20 years than the complete combined history of humankind..the internet, global economies, quantum mechanics but for some reason modern man (as a whole) has devolved into a monkey whose main interests seem to be the idot box known as television and watching men chase balls around a field. We are a trainload of monkeys drooling into the latest dan brown slopnovel. Progress is a relative term and those who flunk history are doomed to flunk it again and again for all eternity like some sisyphus pushing a boulder up a slippery hill. maybe change is the only constant but it doesnt seemed to help the shortbus I call humanity.