Is anyone else concerned about living a short life?

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    [–]TiwakingMy Pronouns are Nigger and Boss Nigger 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Kids these days are retarded

    [–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    A huge percentage of polio cases were caused by the 'vaccine'. But in general, that period was peak civilization. Stuff was cheap, and a basic job could finance a whole family.

    When I got back from the army, I bought a race car for $3K, and filled the tank with (IIRC) 30 cent gas. 1970 & 1/2 Z-28, bored out 40 over, B&B, and all the other goodies, for the curious. My AR-15 cost around $400, and ammo was eye-poppingly cheap compared to today.

    There were no cell phones or computers! People went outside, and told their kids to just be home by dark. I hadn't seen a nigger until I was in the army. California was a conservative state. Your drivers license had your name typed on the card, along with your eye and hair color, your height and weight, and your address. 'Homeless' were just called bums or hobos, and it was a lifestyle they chose.

    With all information coming from newspapers, television, and radio, most people hadn't yet realized how fucked up our species is. Overpopulation was just becoming a topic, but it wasn't really a concern for us. Oops.

    If you missed that period, there's probably no way to understand the gestalt of the culture, and general sense of being. You weren't tracked electronically, financially, or otherwise. Life wasn't perfect, but we hadn't yet fallen into the hellishness of current reality.

    Oh, and I did get to do the "duck and cover" exercises in school, where we would crouch under our desks to practice for nuke war. (I don't think that would have worked.)

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    Oh, and I did get to do the "duck and cover" exercises in school, where we would crouch under our desks to practice for nuke war.

    I don't think that stopped until the 90s, I used to have the nuclear drills too.

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      [–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      It's like you wanted to say something, but then got distracted and stopped before you did.

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      And yet people are overlooking the chances of nuclear war today, the same as it ever was since the weapons were first dropped on Japan, if not even a little more risky today than the cold war in those days. At least the leaders and general mass back then wasn't as dumb compared to today. Oh, and let me guess, there were a larger number of real blonde chicks too?

      I know things weren't perfect and the things we have today were just being planted. But it's not like we got to the point of it being knees-deep everywhere you go until more recently. Actually, I wouldn't want total perfection.

      [–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Not only were they blonde, they were blonde all over back then. They were also human shaped.

      My gf had a 'chubby' friend, perhaps emaciated by todays standards, but that was then. They were out one day and when they went into a shop the owner informed them: "Looks like one of you has been eating out of the others trough." Overweight people were not normal back then, and people felt free to share their opinions.

      Perfection is just the unattainable end point on an enormous scale of possible outcomes. Even near-perfection might be too perfect for us (as Mr. Smith monologued to Morpheus), but we're plummeting towards the other end.

      [–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

      In the 1970s my mother was eating liqueur (parsley sauce) and mash potato every day for lunch and a tin of tomato soup with no bread for dinner. If you look back at the 70s everyone was thin, not because they had more will power but because most couldn't afford good food. And it did effect them, eventually my mother couldn't sleep on her cheap mattress because the springs dug into her bones.

      [–]Cornfed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

      If you are from the West then what in God's name are you talking about? - the 60s and 70s were the richest time ever.

      [–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      But food was not great.

      If you look at the stats people paid a far higher proportion of their salary on food and the cost of housing a lot less.

      So if you were young and starting out rent was easy to pay but food was something you could cut back to save some money.

      [–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Once again I don't know where you are thinking of, but the exact opposite was the case in most of the West. Where I'm from bread and milk were subsidised and basically free, and the basic bread and other foods were vastly nutritionally superior to their modern nutrition-free counterparts.

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      wages were higher (adjusting for inflation), you could afford the food easily, you were only poor if you had like 10 kids, how many kids did your mom have?

      [–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      What country was this? In my 1970s, I had some random jobs at a pasta factory, a concrete silo builder, and worked in an office at a cutting die mfg. I was young, and not sure if I could have paid for a house, but it seemed like plenty of money.

      [–]blackpoop321 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I'd take the polio and malaria back anytime over this nonsense. Nuclear holocaust? Give me a break, just duck and cover.