we will find out that if humanity is a failed experiment or not. take your life back some of you cannot go back that far but go back 1978 that is when i made blue highways and think of the problems of 1978 and what we re talking about now, what were we not talking about in 1978 we re talking about now? you get an indicator of which way this human experiment is going. you get a little gps pointing out where you were and where you are and it seems really need to consider that question will we find out in this century we are as a species a failed experiment? we all know what we hope the answer will be. i want to read you something and then we will go to q and a this is not from the but to people talking. there s a section in the utah persian of roads to quoz that q calls, oral history of the american west because everything in it i heard or was told to me, west of the 100th meridian i was of the notion wouldn t it be wonderful if shakespeare kept a notebook and would write d