[geeks] Return to the 50's?

[David Selders]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:32:38AM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> Is it me or are we returning to the 50's with high-technology?
> 
> I just watched the TV and realized several things:
> 
> Attitudes seem to be shifting back to the fundamentalist values that
> were prevalent in about 1950.
> 
> Clothing styles are moving backwards not forwards.  The went from 80's
> to 90's then 70's, then 60's, now 50's.  The Rockettes were just on
> the TV posing for a fashion mag dressed in camel and tweed
> trench-coats with brimmed hats.
> They looked like bad detective movie clones.
> 
> The attitudes about privacy are returning to the same as they were in
> the 50's.  Notice the wiretap laws being passed.  "If you don't know
> enough about yourself call they FBI they can help."
> 
> The fanatic^h^H conservative religious majority is pushing to
> ostracize anyone not a "Christian" or something mainstream.
> 
> Maybe I'm being paranoid but I don't want to return to a lifestyle of
> quiet painful restraint, no freedoms, and a "commie" behind every corner.
> 
> Mike Hebel                        mailto:drone8of9 at crosswinds.net
> 
> http://drone8of9.crosswinds.net/documents/Mike_Hebel_Current_3.html
> 
> http://drone8of9.crosswinds.net/documents/Mike_Hebel_Current_3.doc
> 
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Hmm... Now that you mention it, yeah I have noticed that.  I don't know about this whole retro is cool thing.  I think last Saturday I was watching the A&E channel and they had a whole hour show devoted to 50's furniture.  The fashion and such doesn't bother me much.  The thought of religous and racial intolerance bothers me quite a bit.  I think it's all just a knee jerk reaction to all thats been going on.  I would certainly hope the intrusions aren't a permanent thing.  Although being a state employee I know "temporary" works.  Ok I think I have rambled enough.  

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David Selders
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Martinez, Ca