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Originally posted by Oonjerah:


Somewhere along the line, we lost respect, values.
Maybe more accurately: we didn't impart our respect & values to our kids.

The TV did ... now the Internet does.

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
But if couples do have children, then it's best to have
a parent at home whenever the children are home.

My notion is that kids grow into responsible adults
most likely when they are raised by caring parents.

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
In the olde days, before me, before the 20th century,
Families in one (large?) house were usually of 3 generations,
maybe even 4.

And while that wasn't pre-industrial anymore, I'll guess
that 70-80% of families still farmed ... if not 60 acres
anymore, then maybe just one.

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
When I was a child, the Husband was the bread winner; the
Wife was the HomeMaker. Nowadays, there're way more families
where both parents have to work to make ends meet.

What was it that drove the cost of living up & changed our way of life?

See Rollerball, 1975, James Caan, John Houseman
(I saw it 1st at the theatre. Being socially dense, I didn't understand
it. But it was great anyways. I understand it better now: they weren't
living in a Democracy.)

Somewhere along the line, we lost respect, values.
Maybe more accurately: we didn't impart our respect & values to our kids.

The TV did ... now the Internet does.

"Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant
or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one."

Dystopia! Are we there yet?
https://wordndwhimsy.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/dystopia-are-we-there-ye
t/

"Nineteen Eighty-Four. Brave New World. We. Fahrenheit 451.
Classic dystopian novels ..."

A few dystopian movies:
Metropolis, Soylent Green, Logan's Run(not Wolverine), Blade Runner, the Matrix, Mad Max II, Escape from New York, RoboCop, the Running Man.

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“As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tis-sues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

And so on.Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done. If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.”

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions

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Originally posted by JO753:
Amazing predictionz in Harrison Bergeron about "the last recession never stopped". And MY house being a plase for intellectualz to meet!!!

I watched it on Youtube. I tried to link to it, but its blocked and there duznt seem to be any way to just post a link to Youtube here rather than embedding it. Just watch the to rezult for 'full movie'.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.7532020.com

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Originally posted by G:
Vonnegut - one of my fav authors many years ago. Try "Sirens of Titan" if you haven't. He reduces the whole of human kind to a necessary process to produce a single part for a downed alien space ship. Amazing mind.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Hey, Oonj, I found that Dystopia you've been looking for, and it's not us living in our one generation house.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/06/02/generations-disabled
/?utm_term=.263230686dbc

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:


Yep. This is the Real World.
But then ... why are we discussing it more than DOing it?

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