Interestingly enough, Rockwell’s last original POST cover was 5/25/63, the day before I turned 6; a beautiful portrait of Egypt’s President Nasser. People should know, too, that Mr. Rockwell did a lot more wonderful work between 1963 until he passed away in 1978. Much of it capturing the turbulent ’60s: from civil rights to hippies to the Moon Landing. Absolutely brilliant work, yet he was so humble and down to earth.

Just pretending he were alive today, no doubt he’d be capturing the insane world of today with technology run amok with people texting while driving and the irony of everything moving faster yet not really making any progress, just more stress. Personally, I think the fact that the Captains on the Titanic could basically send and receive “text messages” in the middle of the Atlanic almost 100 years ago kind of puts today’s technology into the proper perspective—not impressive. Oh, and that little event called the Moon Landing 40 years ago? Sorry 21st Century, you’re off to a very sorry start indeed to NOT living in the 20th Century’s ever growing tall shadow.

A cover of the POST in 1968 posed the question, “Are We Headed Toward the Day Everything Stops?” Well yeah, we kind of reached that era in the mid-90′s with the autos, movies, music and American culture in general feeding off itself with sad recycling, that we now live in an never-ending-present, very fast-paced with the lowest common deminator as its Gold Standard. Wondering about future decades? More of the same of course. Someday the ’60s will be almost a century ago, and I have no doubt they’ll still be recycled in some weird cyber-form in the 2050′s.