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With all the carnage & general crap that's going on these days, I wish. I had a time machine to wheeched me back to the sixties when as the flower people we thought we could make a peaceful world.
Alas, we voted the wrong people into power - all over the 'free' world.
I bet a cursory bit of research would reveal the 60's to be just as messed up geopolitically as now.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
True but people had a chance to take a different direction and failed. It may be too late now.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs
There are many parallels with today.Quote:
Originally Posted by snooky
The received wisdom (whether true or not) was that we were under military threat from the Soviet Union, and political threat from Communism. As a child, many a night I went to bed wondering if the nukes were going to be launched. The C word in my environment was probably scarier than the M word is today.
The threat of random violence? I actually feel safer in the streets of Edinburgh now than I did back in the 60's and 70's. Is that rational, or just perceived? Someone will be along with the relevant crime stats to back that up, or not.
My point was that we knew the world was not right and we thought we could change it. Sadly some of the flower children grew into George Bush, Tony Blair, et al.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyonhibs