Michigan Badger
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Reflecting Upon All The Doomsday Reports Since the 50's
I just checked out a more recent "documentary" that basically says the end is very near. The "end" being the elderly and others starving to death due to loss of Social Security benefits, etc., etc.
I grew up in the early days of the so-called "Cold War." In the late 40's to about the late 50's many U.S. kids didn't sleep very well because we were all told repeatedly that the great evil Russia would soon nuke us. I recall waking horrified from a dream of standing under a sky filled with Russian bombers and one crashing right on me! lol One self exalted prophet of doom said Russia would take over the U.S. by 1976. Many thousands believed him and he received a lot money from them until it was obvious he was mistaken.
One of the more novel doomsday propaganda deals was when a group of scientists in the late 50's determined the center of the earth was growing so hot the earth would burn up within a short time. This one was rather short lived and was so stupid it's difficult to even document it today.
Failure of our Social Security programs has always been a top threat. I recall discussing this in the 60's. The opinion amongst scholars was that the entire system would fail long before we "Baby Boomers" ever reached retirement age. "You will starve to death" but most of us are on diets.
Mega inflation is always a big worry with many. The dollar will be worthless and only precious metals will matter. Oh really? Ever try to eat gold?
Getting back to the "Cold War" era, remember how everyone wanted a fallout shelter? The idea was to survive a nuclear attack. People built these and filled them with food that was supposed to keep them from starving along with everyone else in their neighborhood who didn't hoard. I guess they were thinking people would just politely starve to death while they sat in the fallout shelters wolfing down the chow.
Doomsday probably will come some day but for millions (billions) of people worldwide it's an every day event in their minds. Oh, happy thought indeed!
Oh well, at least the people spreading these things are making lots of money.
I just checked out a more recent "documentary" that basically says the end is very near. The "end" being the elderly and others starving to death due to loss of Social Security benefits, etc., etc.
I grew up in the early days of the so-called "Cold War." In the late 40's to about the late 50's many U.S. kids didn't sleep very well because we were all told repeatedly that the great evil Russia would soon nuke us. I recall waking horrified from a dream of standing under a sky filled with Russian bombers and one crashing right on me! lol One self exalted prophet of doom said Russia would take over the U.S. by 1976. Many thousands believed him and he received a lot money from them until it was obvious he was mistaken.
One of the more novel doomsday propaganda deals was when a group of scientists in the late 50's determined the center of the earth was growing so hot the earth would burn up within a short time. This one was rather short lived and was so stupid it's difficult to even document it today.
Failure of our Social Security programs has always been a top threat. I recall discussing this in the 60's. The opinion amongst scholars was that the entire system would fail long before we "Baby Boomers" ever reached retirement age. "You will starve to death" but most of us are on diets.
Mega inflation is always a big worry with many. The dollar will be worthless and only precious metals will matter. Oh really? Ever try to eat gold?
Getting back to the "Cold War" era, remember how everyone wanted a fallout shelter? The idea was to survive a nuclear attack. People built these and filled them with food that was supposed to keep them from starving along with everyone else in their neighborhood who didn't hoard. I guess they were thinking people would just politely starve to death while they sat in the fallout shelters wolfing down the chow.
Doomsday probably will come some day but for millions (billions) of people worldwide it's an every day event in their minds. Oh, happy thought indeed!
Oh well, at least the people spreading these things are making lots of money.
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