Time was……

19 Responses to Time was……

1. KG says:

   November 27, 2013 at 05:47

   I’m waiting to hear from the photographer, Mr. John Dziobko Jr. concerning payment for the superb pic, so here’s hoping we won’t have to take it down…
2. KG says:

   November 27, 2013 at 06:05

   Can anybody seriously argue that times are better now? Sure, looking back, it’s always easy to remember the good and discount the bad, but consider….
   We now have gadgets we don’t need at a price we can’t afford coming out our ears. Wide-screen high-definition televisions, cars stuffed with electronics – including spyware – we can’t fix ourselves, rule by know-nothing all powerful petty tyrants armed with a shiny arse and clipboards, one-party political tyranny, cops who think the people they’re supposed to serve are their inferior subjects, a broken education system, courts which make law instead of administer it. The concepts of privacy, property rights and shame are all but dead…The list goes on.
   I’d trade those so-called “advances” in order to step back to the time when that photograph was taken. (A time that was arguably the beginning of the decay of decent society. And my generation was largely responsible for initiating that decay).
3. Findalis says:

   November 27, 2013 at 07:10

   Coming back soon when the Muslims cut off our oil supply.
4. Findalis says:

   November 27, 2013 at 07:11

   @ KG

   Some things are better. We live longer, have cures for diseases that would kill you back then, we have a better variety of foods, and have the internet.
5. Contempt says:

   November 27, 2013 at 07:32

   21 years old in 1966. America was on top. Sad.
   Don’t give up the ship!
6. KG says:

   November 27, 2013 at 07:39

   Findalis, those things are a poor, poor trade for the loss of liberty imho.
   Living longer as serf than as a free man is pointless.
   Food is just fuel.
   We have the internet in it’s present form just as long as our business/political masters will allow it.
   And modern life inflicts some of the diseases we pride ourselves on being able to fix.
7. Wombat says:

   November 27, 2013 at 09:10

   I agree, but what ticks me off the most is that to maintain an “average” family income both my wife and I would have to work.

   Our version of “progress” involves spending more time at work rather than with our spouse and kids, and using television as a surrogate for our absences. What could we possibly expect the result to be but one damaged generation after the next?

   What’s coming down the line like a freight train is exactly what our society deserves. I will be glad to see the back of:
   Fractional reserve banking creating wage slavery through 25 year mortgages.
   Nigh inescapable advertising.
   Next door neighbours who run a mile when they see you but have a hundred friends on facebook.
   Food riddled with poisons mandated as “within human tolerances”.
   People who think that food comes from supermarkets and McDonalds.
   People who look down on those with dirt under their fingernails.
   Gun control.
   Working a hundred miles from your home because you make 20% more a year than you would working at the supermarket next door.
   Career law enforcement.
   Career bureaucracy.
   Car registration.
   Paper currency and the stock market.
   People who make a living pushing currency and manipulating the stock market.

   Meh. Enough… The list could go on forever.
8. KG says:

   November 27, 2013 at 09:57

   “The list could go on forever.”
   It does, Wombat. It surely does.
9. Darin says:

   November 27, 2013 at 12:40

   Disease is making comeback-
   http://theweek.com/article/index/253397/why-the-post-antibiotic-world-is-the-real-life-version-of-the-zombie-apocalypse

   War never really went away,and people are running around all over the World screaming Peace!Peace!When there is no Peace.

   http://fusion.net/leadership/story/iran-deal-talks-cuba-works-262630

   Can Famine be far behind?

   http://farmfutures.com/blogs-epa-re-write-midwest-runoff-regs-7672
10. Findalis says:

    November 27, 2013 at 14:13

    @ KG

    Tampons. Do you know what women used back then?
11. KG says:

    November 27, 2013 at 15:36

    Not something I’ve given a great deal of thought to, Findalis. But in the middle ages it was leaves, soft bark and rags I believe.
12. Cadwallader says:

    November 27, 2013 at 16:16

    There is a web-site set-up by the Steam Punk Group in Oamaru. There’s a great snap of the “Train From Hell” a steam locomotive driven by a skeleton no less.
13. KG says:

    November 27, 2013 at 16:32

    I’m a fan of Steam Punk! Especially when applied to modern high-tech gear.
14. mawm says:

    November 27, 2013 at 19:07

    In my pocket I carry a phone, a camera, a calculator, my Hi Fi, about 1500 LP’s (can you remember those things?), a list of my friends telephone numbers and addresses, my diary, my mail, my time piece, my alarm clock, my computer, a communication system to connect to the world, my maps, a navigation system, a loooonng list of drug interactions, a drug dosage calculator, a text book of diseases (well over 1000 pages), the tides for New Zealand, a compass and a spirit level (and lots more)…….and all together they weigh 149g.
15. KG says:

    November 27, 2013 at 19:13

    Staggering, isn’t it? I love technology.
    But…..I still believe we’ve lost – and lost sight of – more important things.
16. Findalis says:

    November 27, 2013 at 21:33

    @ KG

    I’ll take the technology of today with the morals of yesterday. A more perfect society.
17. Darin says:

    November 28, 2013 at 00:07

    Mawm-
    I just remember all that stuff.I always have a signal,battery lasts 14 hours on a charge,only remember the phone numbers that I need or will do any good to call.Got every song I ever liked availible instantly.

    And I can still f–k up traffic “texting”and “download” Porn
18. Diamond Mair says:

    November 28, 2013 at 07:17

    Did the latter part of my growing up in & around Lancaster, PA {graduate of Lancaster Catholic High School – Go, Crusaders!! (thankfully, PC hasn’t hit the powers-that-be there yet)}
    When you & Gecko head to the U.S. {I’m thinking AFTER Øbama leaves office}, I’ll have to take y’all on a cook’s tour of the northeastern part of the country ……………………….. maybe the 2nd & 3rd weeks of October {so you can see the glorious fall colors}
    Semper Fi’
    DM
19. KG says:

    November 28, 2013 at 07:25

    I’d surely love to see it, DM.