I'm Just Learning How It Is

This should make me like everyone else. This is what people have always been doing - learning how it is, so they can move into new territory.

But sometime late in the 19th Century, they went into reverse - and instead of getting more territory, they got less.

What do I mean by getting less territory? Less intellectual territory. We had always been living off our smarts, and now there was less of that.

This was such a shock, our minds went into reverse also - and we decided we were better off - instead of worse off.

We had a double-whammy working against us. We were worse off - but thought we were better off!