"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
I think sometimes we glimpse the future but it’s never a complete vision, it’s a haunting similarity that makes us wonder if it’s possible to see precisely into the future. I’ve done drawings like this myself but the links are often tenuous. That being said Leunig’s drawing of the multitude looking shocked on the streets is virtually prophetic to say the least. As for the Understandascope, well people are still speculating to this day. Feel free if you want to see the two pictures I have in mind.