But not that far. More recent comparisons serve up similar nonsense. Newt's predictions mirror the arrogant superiority of the Chinese leadership making its futile feudal pronouncements. The good news is, current regimes worldwide are utimately only stones in the river, not dams. Aberration is flowing everywhere, it can't be contained, it won't behave, and it won't go away.
Truth is energy, and it wants to be free.
The truly intelligent thing to do is to channel and engage that energy, like a poet does with expressive language, like an enlightened parent does with her child. The 90's are the 60's stood on its head. Different generation, same issues. There is extraordinary foment, in the arts and music, the environment, grassroots demo-cracy, redefinition of labor and the workplace . . . Layer in the worldwide revolution in communications, and the unprecedented global democratization posed by the internet.