Originally posted by mrwupyBut then again Syr, it may just be us. I'm old enough to be the father of most members of ATS...and
considering my ill spent youth its quite possible I am, but back to the conversation.
We can form the League Of Overage Posters and whack the young'uns with our canes when they get uppity. I'm the same generation as both of you.
life seems to have become a run-a-way train and were all holding tickets to the ride and are waiting for the derailment and resulting disaster.
The thing is, it may not derail, it may be stopped and we all get off the train and go our merry ways. I'm not counting on that, but hey, i'm still
enjoying the ride.
I suspect it's actually the medium through which we're communicating.
Remember the Cuban Missle Crisis? Just imagine the panic, terror, and end-of-world-ism back then, when we really WERE just a breath away from
WWIII.
And how about the time that the Berlin Wall went up. I was in Germany then, living in military housing, listening to the sounds of our troops being
marched out into the field so in case of an attack by the Russians, they couldn't wipe out our army.
...just us, the dependants.
Ah, imagine if Rush Limbaugh and all the pundits and panderers had existed back then, along with the reach-out-and-touch-everyone Internet.
Remember the Red Scares? The witch hunts of "commie pinkos"? The Great Planetary Alignment of (when was it) 1975? The Age of Aquarius? The Watts
Riots? Race riots? Civil rights marches? The hurricanes that we couldn't spot until it was only a few days away? The great Alaska earthquake?
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980's with all the accusations (unjustified) of ritual abuse (now discounted... but all the people unjustly accused and
jailed)?
And that was only the US. There was also the killer smogs in London where several hundred people died, polio epidemics, smallpox epidemics...
Ah, the list could go on for a long time. Yes, I lived through it all as well but my view may be changed because I was a military dependant and saw a
lot of the world and a lot of things most people will never see. Life moves faster because we're busy and because we have such a huge selection of
distractors.
Cut your tv down to just THREE local networks (remember what our news was like?) and cut hours of broadcast to 8am to midnight. The world will look
different. Change your radio options to five local channels only (no talk radio.) The world will look much different.
We are in a noisy environment and we have to now select our information out of all the roars and howls. We no longer have it handed to us in a
relatively noise-free environment. But the Internet and satellite tv and so forth haven't been something that we grew up with. It is a new thing
and we don't know how to separate out choices, so we see chaos and it's frightening.
It's not THAT frightening to me, because the Internet is my field of study and I know a bit about sorting good stuff from noise. But it can
overwhelm you if you don't learn discernment and fact-checking.
...in my over-educated opinion, of course.
And I’m smiling. Probably because it’s nice to know that I’m in such good company. I’ve been
feeling the stuff you all describe for about a month or so. It’s hard to describe, but it’s like some sort of ‘shift’ is imminent. 
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