Okay---it's also like the proverbial "slippery slope". Yup. Saul Pieman wrote a wonderful song---one of the best songs EVER---called "slip sliding away", in which he lyrically addressed the situation. Yup. Amazing and awesome. But yeahh--here a couple photos. One, of Saul singin' slip-salidin' awaaaayyy(just awesome & amayzeen), before a HUUUGE crowd that idolizes him. Yup. Wonder how much those tickicks costed? Worth every penny, no doubt. Ha.2023-01-20 (10).jpg
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
Autism, peanut allergies...Unheard of in the past.
The first time I ever heard of autism was when I read Son Rise, by Barry Neil Kaufman in the mid-seventies.
Credit. I remember when we were kids, dad fixed the mainframe at a chain that someone screwed up and it caused a breakdown that they were missing payroll. After getting it back up and going in a timely manner, mom received a credit card from that company in the mail to them. Dad cut it up as he hadn't requested it and it nearly caused a divorce, until they got one reissued. (allowed them to buy some tools to fix things as needed)
Cars that go more then 100K and don't need oil changes every 1000 to 1500 miles and tune ups every 12K.
A/C and FM radio. Around Halloween, I thought about seeing if I could find an old Wolfman Jack Halloween show with some of the oldies to have playing outside while kids trick or treat. (for the few that do)
Kids who live at home with parents until they are close to middle age. Bike lanes along streets. Policemen stationed in schools.
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I’m talking more about our reaction to conditions rather than the conditions themselves. Those kids under the desks were a display of resolve against the nuclear threat, not the sort of pointless handwringing we see now. A few generations of Americans led the effort to contain the Soviet empire until it collapsed under the weight of communist idiocy and authoritarian brutality. When Reagan and Volcker faced inflation in the early eighties, they took painful and decisive action; they didn’t try to seek scapegoats or pretend it didn’t exist like we see now. We were a bolder and more resilient people then.
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