Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites

As I read this chapter I began to see how much the author understood the mentality of humanity and how much it had changed since we had begun the efforts of civilization building. The Author mentions that before "800 B.C. few cultures thought in terms of past and present". Yet here we are today with everything in front of us and we cant wait for what tomorrow will bring. The present no longer matters for us, we will always be looking forward to the apple tablet, or next weeks episode of Lost. Instead of representing the future as the "Present manifesting" and past as "Present Manifested", the past becomes ancient history, the present is the past, and the future is our present.

This mindset could have risen from the can-do attitude of the 60's where the future was an ambitious vision of robot maids, flying cars, social utopias. Even now people still wonder why we still don't have those things since now was the future the past promised them tomorrow.