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Old May 20th 13, 03:18 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Wolfgang Weisselberg
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J. Clarke wrote:
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J. Clarke wrote:
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J. Clarke wrote:


It, and Kodachrome itself, are of a bygone era. So are a lot of other
good things.


Don't forget that everything was better in the past --- when
seen from later times through pink glasses, instead of having
to live in it.


Everything was not better in the past, but a great many things were.
There were also a great many that were worse.


The bad things are ignored, of course. There are a great many
people longing for the good old times on the USSR side of the
iron curtain ...


The economy was certainy
better in the '50s than it is now, to take one example, but black people
had a lot less opportunity.


Oh, sure, it was a great time ... an extremely costly (in
terms of money and lifes) world war just behind and worse
looming ahead, with both sides having "the bomb" (both the
atomic *and* the hydrogen one --- and both having similar
ranges with bombers), Korean Conflict, McCarthyism (and what a
nice witchhunt it was) and the Red Scare, Sputnik Crisis (and
yes, the USSR stood up the USA very much in the space race,
except for the bit of getting people to and on the moon),
Sovjet tanks quell the popular uprising in the GDR by force,
making it clear noone would be allowed to split off from
the eastern block, and a bit later another popular uprising
in Hungary (20,000 killed by Soviet troops, 100,000s flee
as the uprising is quelled), Suez crisis, the Vietnam War
beginning, Algerian War, Cuban Revolution, Mau Mau Uprising,
Rwandan Revolution (AKA the wind of destruction which finally
lead to the 1994 Rwandan Genoicide), decolonization, secret
services toppling governments, PRC, the end of radio/rise
of TV as main entertainment at home and massed lobotomy use
(e.g. against homosexuality or communistic leanings).


I'm not sure I see your point. You seem to be trying to create a
catalog of horrors but you list "the rise of TV" so I'm not really sure
what you think you're on about.


The main concept is change. Change is not always for the
better --- may you live in interesting times.

And TV allows you to see much more bad news live and direct.

-Wolfgang
 




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