Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Lew Wallace: Author, Politician, General" video.

  1. OK, how do the sales of Ben-Hur compare to The Innocents Abroad or _Pilgrim's Progress_?
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  2. You seem to be well-informed about this period of history, so I'll ask you what you think of the following thesis: America is not in fact seeing the pace of change accelerate in recent decades. Taking the time period between the Apollo 11 moon landings and today (2023 at this writing), and comparing it to the same length of time following the 1869 completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad, there was VASTLY more rapid and consequential change in the earlier period. More inventions -- The light bulb, radio, telephones, the internal combustion engine, the automobile, the airplane, the camera, the phonograph, movies, Bessemer steel. Against... the cell phone and Internet? More political events -- the collapse of the centuries-old Chinese, Spanish, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires, and the rise and fall of the Second Reich. Against... the fall of the Soviet Union? More dramatic way-of-life changes, with mass urbanization then the start of suburbanization. Against... a little more suburbanization? Am I being unfair to the current day, or is there simply too much we've all forgotten?
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