Ever wonder how history might have changed had things been more like they are now back then? I don't think we'd be here today to even discuss it.
Without the vast amount of government controls and regulations - not to mention all of the TV and radio talk shows and news programs, the blogosphere, focus groups, and public opinion polls - it's a wonder how any of the following events ever occurred:
Jamestown Colony, Colonial Williamsburg, drafting of the Declaration and the Constitution, California gold rush, discovery of oil, building the transcontinental railroad, the Lewis and Clark expedition, Ford's assembly line Model T, the D-Day invasion, or the Wright Brothers' flight.
Sure mistakes were made along the way. Unfortunately, people were hurt and killed. Things weren't always done as expeditiously as possible. But there are risks in life and in moving forward.
We've have become a very cautious, timid nation in many respects. What will other countries say or think of us? No one can be impacted by a new factory, refinery, or nuclear power plant.
We want shopping malls, factories, and theme parks - we just don't want them anywhere close enough to be able to see them from where we live.
We want alternative sources of energy, but we don't want ugly windmills or nuclear power plants where we can see them, we don't want high tension lines anywhere around us, we don't even want to think about coal-fired furnances or refineries, and we sure don't want to litter the vast oceans around us with off-shore drilling platforms (even though we can't stop the Chinese and other nations from doing it anyway).
Progress doesn't always beget progress or results; however, taking chances and risks do.
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