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<blockquote data-quote="HFS" data-source="post: 3509781" data-attributes="member: 8862">I believe things are crazier now (higher prices and less availability) in part because of electronic communication. Way more people today are bombarded with 24 hour screaming &quot;news&quot; and it&#039;s never good news. Also social media and websites including this one go through phases where about 80 percent of all new posts are OMG! gloom and doom about something. (I&#039;m including the hair raising prices in the Classifieds here as part of the ongoing gloom and doom too, but calm down everybody, I&#039;m not being judgmental.)Every where you turn nowadays there&#039;s constantly something IN YOUR FACE that&#039;s gonna get your blood pressure up and a person has to INTENTIONALLY turn away to avoid it. And there&#039;s social pressure that you just have to watch (like &quot;must see TV&quot; -- B.S.!). I hope we don&#039;t see the day like George Orwell&#039;s 1984 where the government has mandatory propaganda spewing &quot;telescreens&quot; that cannot be turned off and that spy on you 24 hrs a day. (There is that Alexa crap but it&#039;s not mandatory for you to have one. Yet.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HFS, post: 3509781, member: 8862"] I believe things are crazier now (higher prices and less availability) in part because of electronic communication. Way more people today are bombarded with 24 hour screaming "news" and it's never good news. Also social media and websites including this one go through phases where about 80 percent of all new posts are OMG! gloom and doom about something. (I'm including the hair raising prices in the Classifieds here as part of the ongoing gloom and doom too, but calm down everybody, I'm not being judgmental.) Every where you turn nowadays there's constantly something IN YOUR FACE that's gonna get your blood pressure up and a person has to [B][U]INTENTIONALLY[/U][/B] turn away to avoid it. And there's social pressure that you just have to watch (like "must see TV" -- B.S.!). I hope we don't see the day like George Orwell's 1984 where the government has mandatory propaganda spewing "telescreens" that cannot be turned off and that spy on you 24 hrs a day. (There is that Alexa crap but it's not mandatory for you to have one. Yet.) [/QUOTE]

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