Is anyone else concerned about living a short life?

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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.

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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.