Posted by Dinah on October 7, 2008, at 3:19:31
In reply to Re: Oops-- there goes the economy..., posted by Sigismund on October 6, 2008, at 14:54:34
The seventies must have been better to you than they were to me. But I suppose I was more late seventies.
Vietnam, chloroflorocarbons, the new ice age, carbon monoxide emmissions from vehicles (do you recall when you used to gag anywhere near a road?), rampant inflation, stagflation, stratospheric interest rates, recession, civil unrest, the cold war, the nuclear arms race, the near bankruptcy of New York.
To be honest I never thought I'd live to see the turn of the century. Or if I did, we'd be knee deep in glaciers and awash in nuclear waste.
Boy, and if you look back further... World wars, plagues, slavery, the infant mortality rate... Well, even in the seventies I considered myself pretty fortunate, even if we were going to freeze to death if we didn't blow ourselves up first.
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