Don'tchya Miss the Cold War

[moi621 (imported)]

The world in chaos.

Doesn't it make you long for the stability of those "Cold War" days.

Sure there was "duck and cover" but there were no political acts of terrorism.

Discuss. Compared to today, what was better back in the Cold War days. Or not.

Moi

So Old and Longing For Those Simpler Mid 20Th Century Times

[gareth19 (imported)]

The world in chaos.

Doesn't it make you long for the stability of those "Cold War" days.

Sure there was "duck and cover" but there were no political acts of terrorism.

Discuss. Compared to today, what was better back in the Cold War days. Or not.

Moi

So Old and Longing For Those Simpler Mid 20Th Century Times

Yes, during the mid-twentieth century, they were really simple.

[kristoff]

The world in chaos.

Doesn't it make you long for the stability of those "Cold War" days.

Sure there was "duck and cover" but there were no political acts of terrorism.

Discuss. Compared to today, what was better back in the Cold War days. Or not.

Moi

So Old and Longing For Those Simpler Mid 20Th Century Times

Not a bit. So much as has changed for the better, although of course there has been some bad

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[JesusA (imported)]

As my grandmother, born in Elyria, Ohio in 1894, said frequently, "The 'Good Ol' Days' –– They were AWFUL!" They she would continue on to give lots of examples.

[moi621 (imported)]

KFC was better during the Cold War. Remember, there was chicken meat then.

And we didn't have domestic terrorism.

Moi

And Drive In theaters, too.

[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

What a silly question. No, of course not.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Moi, have you forgotten the Cuban missile crisis where the world held its breath for a week?

Bomb shelters,

The Vietnam war, and the protests that went with them, Kent state.

Watergate

People trying to escape East Germany and sometimes making it?

and you want to go back to that? with no PC's?

NO PC's

Are you kidding?

And we still have drive in theaters but why? bad picture, worse sound, good grief.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

Remember ZERO bars. The candy.

Have you seen one recently?



How about Gas Wars.

Can you remember any acts of domestic terrorism then.

Except the later period when dichotomy was breaking down we got airline hijacking.

Cuban Missile crisis lasted how long?

Berlin and Vietnam were over there, not happening here.

Sure there were some police riots like Kent State, Jackson State and Berkeley too.

No one was unloading a clip in a movie theater.

And the right wingnuts had Communism and the Red Menace to keep them busy.

Now they have too much idle time for unorganized mischief.

For all its' faults the Cold War maintained a World order. A "Pax Cold War" that worked better

then the Pax Americana of today.

Moi

And Variety TV shows too. Ed Sullivan.

[hazbalz (imported)]

Domestic acts of terrorism? You have a faulty memory or are living in a nostalgic haze, Moi. Don't you remember the bombings? The plane hijackings? The kidnappings? How about the lynchings? Let me just give you a few examples: Four little girls murdered in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in September 1963. The Weatherman frequently bombed university buildings and banks and killed a Brinks guard in a robbery in 1981. They also were responsible for the "Days of Rage" in Chicago in 1969. The assassinations of Medger Evans and Martin Luther King, Jr. were certainly acts of political terrorism. Fourteen year old Emmett Till was horribly lynched in 1955 (one of 11 blacks lynched that year). Three men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were lynched in Mississippi in 1964. Plane hijackings to Cuba became so frequent that the US began screening passengers and using metal detectors for the first time on airline passengers. There was the SLA, with their own bombings and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Black Panthers starting riots and robbing banks. As for "unloading clips" there was Charles Whitman killing 17 people while shooting from the tower at the University of Texas in 1966. These are just a few examples I can think of rather quickly but there are many many more.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Remember ZERO bars. The candy.

Have you seen one recently?



How about Gas Wars.

Can you remember any acts of domestic terrorism then.

Except the later period when dichotomy was breaking down we got airline hijacking.

Cuban Missile crisis lasted how long?

Berlin and Vietnam were over there, not happening here.

Sure there were some police riots like Kent State, Jackson State and Berkeley too.

No one was unloading a clip in a movie theater.

And the right wingnuts had Communism and the Red Menace to keep them busy.

Now they have too much idle time for unorganized mischief.

For all its' faults the Cold War maintained a World order. A "Pax Cold War" that worked better

then the Pax Americana of today.

Moi

And Variety TV shows too. Ed Sullivan.

In case you have not noticed were still in that GAS war.

OK bombing

Chief Davis of LA calling for hanging at the airports for hijackings, right after a fast speedy trial at the airport.

Cuban Missile crisis lasted for years, people bought bomb shelters to put in their back yards, the country was scared to death.

So those protests of the war were where????

Yes lets minimize the fact that students protesting were shot and killed by the National Guard

No but Manson unloaded on a family near where you live, he is still in prison

No the wingnuts were still there except they had white sheets to hid who they really were, the cowards.

NOW there you have me, with two world powers playing nuclear Armageddon daily in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Yes the good old days where DEFCON 5 was only a push of the button away, bringing movies like How I learned to love the bomb. Many movies were made with this subject, but you don't see that today. Thank god.

As for the Ed Sullivan show, it was one of the worst shows on TV, not that the reality shows are any better. But yes TV was better in the old days before it became all about how much money can we make. The English still have great TV they still see it as an art form that must be protected unlike the US where its all about MONEY.

That is the only thing about the past that was better then today, the greed level was not as bad but only because we had laws to stop it.

River