"Compared to now we were a 3rd world country then. No interstates, 3rd world financial instability, etc."
Nonsense. The U.S. had national rail service, a fully-connected telephone and telegraph grid, the planet's leading banking system, the planet's leading cryptographers, computer scientists, nuclear physicists, aeronautical engineers, machinists, commercial farmers, stock market, port system, canal system, research institutions, R&D funding, and overall a great educational system at the collegiate level even back then.
And your craven fear about our banking system collapsing either then or now truly isn't manly or realistic.
What makes you fear the world so much? Didn't Howard Hughes gradually grow ever-more fearful as he withdrew from society? Don't make his mistake.
Nonsense. The U.S. had national rail service, a fully-connected telephone and telegraph grid, the planet's leading banking system, the planet's leading cryptographers, computer scientists, nuclear physicists, aeronautical engineers, machinists, commercial farmers, stock market, port system, canal system, research institutions, R&D funding, and overall a great educational system at the collegiate level even back then. I wasn't comparing the US to the rest of the world at that time, I was contrasting it with modern America.
Let me get this straight, are you arguing that the rest of the developing world will never be able to rival US technology in the 1940's ?
And your craven fear about our banking system collapsing either then or now truly isn't manly or realistic.
There isn't much I fear, Southack, financial turmoil isn't even close to making the list. It does annoy me that there isn't any stability analysis I can do on the world's financial markets. I do think folks like Soros have good points regarding cumulative financial instability in the "system". As an experimentalist, I say you have to shock them to find out.
What makes you fear the world so much? Didn't Howard Hughes gradually grow ever-more fearful as he withdrew from society? Don't make his mistake.
Thanks for the advice, but I'm not living in fear. I'm simply speculating on the future of military technology.
If it was the 19th century, and I was telling you the Africans would one day have Gatling guns, I don't see why I should be considered "fearful".