Is anyone else concerned about living a short life?

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    [–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 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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    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.