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Pentax question
J. Clarke wrote:
In article , ozcvgtt02 J. Clarke wrote: In article , ozcvgtt02 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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