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<blockquote data-quote="capnkirk462" data-source="post: 4326239" data-attributes="member: 45148"><p>I have always considered myself an outsider in society. I spend most of my time on the outside looking in. People forget about things, back in the 80s' we had hand held video games, my favorite was a baseball game, then there was the tamagotchi virtual pet game, Nintendo game boy and now cell phones. There is always a moral panic around be it free love, swinging 70's and disco, satanic panic, video games, doing crime and posting it on the internet. Stuff like that will be just a variation of what has happened before. Ban switchblade then "assault rifles" next plasma rifles. As far as the world goes, who knows. Not many people saw the collapse of USSR and the eastern bloc coming. The Arab Spring was great until it wasn't. Politics has sucked for so long it is a tradition now. I remember the economy in the 70's not great, then the oil boom and bust of the 80's, and the house bubble bursting in the mid to late 00's and now the fallout from coronavirus. They say the more things change the more they stay the same, mostly true I think. As long as the Yellowstone volcano doesn't erupt America should be mostly ok, just not what we want it to be. I hope that we can still have a great military, hopefully. But the world is becoming a society of shut-ins, myself included. The whole "climate change" thing, who the f@ck knows about that. As a whole hopefully technological innovations will make the world overall a better place, if they are allowed by the powers at be. Just my ramblings, thanks for reading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="capnkirk462, post: 4326239, member: 45148"] I have always considered myself an outsider in society. I spend most of my time on the outside looking in. People forget about things, back in the 80s' we had hand held video games, my favorite was a baseball game, then there was the tamagotchi virtual pet game, Nintendo game boy and now cell phones. There is always a moral panic around be it free love, swinging 70's and disco, satanic panic, video games, doing crime and posting it on the internet. Stuff like that will be just a variation of what has happened before. Ban switchblade then "assault rifles" next plasma rifles. As far as the world goes, who knows. Not many people saw the collapse of USSR and the eastern bloc coming. The Arab Spring was great until it wasn't. Politics has sucked for so long it is a tradition now. I remember the economy in the 70's not great, then the oil boom and bust of the 80's, and the house bubble bursting in the mid to late 00's and now the fallout from coronavirus. They say the more things change the more they stay the same, mostly true I think. As long as the Yellowstone volcano doesn't erupt America should be mostly ok, just not what we want it to be. I hope that we can still have a great military, hopefully. But the world is becoming a society of shut-ins, myself included. The whole "climate change" thing, who the f@ck knows about that. As a whole hopefully technological innovations will make the world overall a better place, if they are allowed by the powers at be. Just my ramblings, thanks for reading. [/QUOTE]
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