Monday – VOTD: Paranoid or Prescient in the Cold War Era

At the 2:15 mark, the lad referring to how the masses will be viewed coldly and collectively is, perhaps, one of the more spot-on predictions because here we are. A lot of the other predictions are close too. The girl talking about having a pill to pop instead of eating cabbage, well, if you’re like me and are getting tired of those TV ads for the pricy “Balance of Nature” fruit and vegetable supplements… I mean, who wants to swallow that many horse pills each day? And it is apparent the whole “overpopulation” panic B.S. was festering back then.

Anyhow, it is interesting to go back to the Cold War era and hear what the youth envisioned their future would hold 40-plus years later and see how accurate they were. On a sidenote, I ponder how many of them (atleast now in their late 60s and into their 70s) are globalist pishers today pushing the “climate change” and ‘one world government’ globalist crap that has become the migraine headache for the rest of we levelheaded independent thinkers.

Really, I would love to hear a follow-up from these (then) kids, now adults, and what they did with their lives and what are their current world views with their own life experiences and maturity. They all sounded very thoughtful and intelligent. During the 1960s I was terrified of a nuclear attack, my 82 Airborne paratrooper Uncle Jack (as I have told you over the years) recalled to me several times over the years how the paratroopers were sleeping under the plane on the tarmac waiting for the “GO” order to leave for Cuba during the missile crisis with Russia. And as a space-minded child I too worried that someday the sun would blow-up and quick fry us all. I had no real concept about computers and technology at that time, and I figure I was a little younger than these kids when this was taped. And in my grade school days I had heard a blurb in the news about how the universe and our galaxy are always expanding that someday (obviously billions of years later … but “tomorrow” to a cartoon-minded kid) the Earth would be so far away from the sun that we wouldn’t have its light or heat and all life would freeze and die. I guess I should have gone to the kitchen with my Grandmother instead of sitting in the smoky living room with Grandpa when he watched the evening news, eh?

However, in the mid 1960s I worried about pissing-off the fascist Oblate Nuns who governed our little hamlet’s Roman Catholic school, many of them from Italy where Mussolini had reigned when they were younger. Yeah, that was the real cold war I was most terrified of.

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~~Many thanks to Maggie and The Universal Spectator for reprint permission.

At the 2:15 mark, the lad referring to how the masses will be viewed coldly and collectively is, perhaps, one of the more spot-on predictions because here we are. A lot of the other predictions are close too. The girl talking about having a pill to pop instead of eating cabbage, well, if you’re like…

At the 2:15 mark, the lad referring to how the masses will be viewed coldly and collectively is, perhaps, one of the more spot-on predictions because here we are. A lot of the other predictions are close too. The girl talking about having a pill to pop instead of eating cabbage, well, if you’re like…