They make it up as they go along decade after decade .Reading the contents of Sloschey Loschey's talk took me right back to the late 1950's and anybody reading similar in the fifties must have been taken back to the thirties , twenties, etc.Who will be giving the same message in 2060 I wonder, it won't be Sloschey boy you can bet your boots on that because he will end up like every other being on the planet.
How I would love to heckle the guy and ask what happened with the empty rhetoric of the past and ask the question " did you have to work hard on the self delusion bit or does it come naturally? Which near future would that be again, is it the near future from the beginning of the 20th century.