Rear View Mirror vision

In the late sixties there was a so-called "media guru" named Marshall McLuhan ("medium is the message," etc.). He taught in Toronto, I was teaching in Buffalo, we were almost neighbors. Anyway, I was teaching a communication course and his seminal text was definitely to be understood by the students. One of his metaphors was speeding into the future looking in the rear view mirror.

I was doing multimedia shows at the time and had one wherein the split screen had a series of rear view shots/slides, and next to that was a l6mm sequence of speed ed up big city night traffic. It was affective at the time, and now I find myself trapezing around in the metaphor with the endless rear view mirror thinking, media and news going on. Our communities, our nation, the world is in such rough shape and we are still doing this insane dance.

How can we possibly afford this? Do we think that we can avoid the consequences or our actions and in actions by denial and cover up? What is that old saying about "Chickens coming home to roost." They are already roosted, by the way; the scary fact is that the rear view vision going on is electronic, digital.