01-26-2021, 02:43 AM
A prediction from 1966 (55 years ago) on how domestic life would be in the early 21st century. Walter Cronkite shows us. The technological marvels of computers, microwave ovens (?) giant-screen televisions, more than the five choices in broadcast television of the time, and communications devices are wonderful. They have been achieved and often surpassed.
My comment as I put it in YouTube:
If people had known about the nightmare of housing of 2021 which is essentially a bad version of housing patterns from the 1950's they would have shrieked in horror! And paying 70% of one's income for rent of a dreary apartment in an inhuman city? Yikes! Landlords are kings in America, and our economic elites are about as rapacious, inhumane, and exploitative as feudal lords.
The gadgets for cooking, entertainment, communication, and data processing are even more wonderful for miniaturization. (And, yes, we would need those in the urban nightmares so expensive because they are where the economic action is in 2021. The economy concentrates in a few coastal cities and a few that have a little glamour for the time (Atlanta? Dallas? Austin? Denver?) and college towns. But other than that much of urban America is an urban wreck. Housing might be cheap in a place like (well, name just about any dying city in Ohio, Michigan, or Pennsylvania) -- just try finding work in such places.
Imagine a world in which people are deeply in hock to see people like them much as a pusher sees an addict. That is America circa 2021.
My comment as I put it in YouTube:
If people had known about the nightmare of housing of 2021 which is essentially a bad version of housing patterns from the 1950's they would have shrieked in horror! And paying 70% of one's income for rent of a dreary apartment in an inhuman city? Yikes! Landlords are kings in America, and our economic elites are about as rapacious, inhumane, and exploitative as feudal lords.
The gadgets for cooking, entertainment, communication, and data processing are even more wonderful for miniaturization. (And, yes, we would need those in the urban nightmares so expensive because they are where the economic action is in 2021. The economy concentrates in a few coastal cities and a few that have a little glamour for the time (Atlanta? Dallas? Austin? Denver?) and college towns. But other than that much of urban America is an urban wreck. Housing might be cheap in a place like (well, name just about any dying city in Ohio, Michigan, or Pennsylvania) -- just try finding work in such places.
Imagine a world in which people are deeply in hock to see people like them much as a pusher sees an addict. That is America circa 2021.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.