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(FAIL) What Futurists in 1988 Imagined Los Angeles Would Be Like in 2013
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| March 16, 2013
| Lauren Davis
Posted on 03/16/2013 5:47:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: SargeK
Then they become extremely specialized, spoiled and decadent. They forget what it was that made them great and the whole thing falls down and gets swallowed in barbarism. Another dark age, and then another great civilization emerges. How many times has this pattern repeated itself in the brief 35,000 or so years since the rise of Homo sapiens?
Despite modern advances, in reality, the majority of human beings on the face of the Earth live in the same conditions they always had for hundred or even thousands of years. What is ironic is, IIRC, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 just before they refired the third stage to go to the Moon, they were able to see the fires that villagers were using as they orbited over Africa. Nicobar Island near India has a tribe of people who still live as they did 40,000, or so, years ago. After the 2004 Christmas quake and tsunami, an Indian military helicopter flew over the island and the people there attacked it with spears. They probably thought, "big bird, feed village for many moons." B-)
I sometimes wonder if we had an advanced civilization on par with that we have now in the past and perhaps a couple of times.
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posted on
03/16/2013 6:34:08 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
03/16/2013 6:54:20 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?)
To: DogByte6RER
During the 40s and 50s Los Angeles was growing and apparently a pleasant place to live. The Hispanics were to a large degree, descendants of the Spaniards who originally settled the area.
Many of the White residents were formely wealthy people from the South who moved to LA after the war. Some of those were Pattons family and John Mosby.
Los Angeles was a progressive city in a progressive state. At the time that sounded good. Like they were using modern technology, modern traffic management and good government.
I don’t know what all changed it but letting illegas in in mass certainly has hurt some. Also large numbers of Blacks came in from St. Louis and that area.
Next was the waves of Hippies who were basically some of the most worthless people on earth. People like Black Panthers, The gang which kidnapped Patty Hearst. Basically most of them are loosely affiliated with Satanic groups. Oh, don’t forget the Manson family.
Today Los Angeles is where if you are White, you probably need to leave while you still can.
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:09:26 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and the American Way.)
To: Hardraade
maybe STAR TREK will be correct as there are no muslims or arabs.
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:21:29 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”)
To: Joe 6-pack
If you really want to see optimism go back and look at some futuristic predictions from the late fifties, early sixties. According to them our biggest problem now is to figure out what to do with all our leisure time, war has been eliminated and everything is a bed of roses. Of course the part about the leisure time is right for a lot of people but not for the reasons forecast.
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:28:39 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:33:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: JoeProBono
To: Redcitizen
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:47:59 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Redcitizen
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:49:34 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Redcitizen
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:54:26 PM PDT
by
Bryan
To: DogByte6RER; Perdogg; Kevmo; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...
That streamlined world has been the vision of the “futurist” about as long as living memory. Thanks DogByte6RER.
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:56:25 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: DogByte6RER
The Blade Runner version of LA is set in what is now the near future, and no sign yet of flying cars, replicants, or the environmental holocaust which consumed all wildlife.
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posted on
03/16/2013 7:59:30 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: GeronL
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posted on
03/16/2013 8:00:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: DogByte6RER
I could have told them your pictures are exactly what it would look like!!
The illegals drove me out of business by 1990 that my dad had started in 1936.
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posted on
03/16/2013 8:07:18 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/16/2013 8:27:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
Is that from Blade runner?
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posted on
03/16/2013 8:35:57 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
03/16/2013 8:49:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: JoeProBono; Bryan; Jack Hydrazine
To: dfwgator
What movie are you talking about?
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posted on
03/17/2013 9:31:14 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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