Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, let me guess, Jayanand, you don't have a special wardrobe for your collection of Pandit Nehru t-shirts... :-) Douglas On 23/07/2019 04:53, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > TV was a luxury that the masses did not deserve, according to the > Government in those days. The waiting queue for a Vespa scooter in those > days was 25 years - you paid an advance, then waited 25 years for the > delivery to come. None of you Americans have the faintest clue on what > living in a socialist economy is like, with centrally planned economic > policies, and licenses to manufacture anything, even a pencil, leading to > shortages of everything starting from food, and rampant corruption > everywhere to obtain the semi monopolistic licenses. You have this woolly > picture of a Socialist Workers Paradise, which is utter nonsense. I know > the delicious thought of pick pocketing the capitalist rich to obtain > freebies for oneself is alluring, but it just does not work. Another class > of exploiters will just take their place. In truth, to quote (I think) > Orwell of Koestler, "Socialism feels like paradise till you reach there". > > I would think a rereading of Animal Farm and The God That Failed should be > in order. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 8:39 AM Christopher Crawford < > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > >> How did socialism keep people from having TV in India? There were a lot of >> countries far more socialist than India that had television long before >> 1982 (The Soviet Union, for example). >> >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-437-8990 >> >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >> Like My Work on Facebook >> >> >> ?On 7/22/19, 10:05 PM, "LUG on behalf of Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG" >> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of >> lug at leica-users.org> wrote: >> >> I was in college at that time. We were still in the clutches of full >> fledged Fabian Socialist hell in those days in India, so there was no TV >> service at all in the country (which made a pan India entrance, gingerly, >> though only in urban areas in 1982, for the Asian Games). I remember >> hearing it on radio, followed by the photographs in LIFE magazine which >> followed soon after. >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On 23-Jul-2019, at 07:24, Peter Klein via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > In July 1969, I was working at a summer camp in rural >> Massachusetts. The night of July 20, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin >> landed on the moon, we counselors were invited up to the camp director's >> house to watch the moon walk. The adults were all out for the night, so we >> had a critical mass of unsupervised 15-22 year-olds. With predicable >> results. Many of the assembled used the opportunity to tell raunchy >> jokes, >> smoke cigarettes, and if they had a willing partner, make out (*). I >> remember being irritated that it was hard to understand what the >> astronauts >> were saying. I was absolutely enthralled by the moon landing, space-nerd >> that I was (and still am). >> > >> > At one point, I remember wondering if we could ever look at the >> moon >> the same way again. Would the sight of the moon still be romantic, now >> that people had walked on it? Walking back to my cabin later, I got my >> answer. The full moon was just as romantic as ever, maybe more so. And I >> so wished that I had a girlfriend to make out with under it. :-) That >> would have to wait a couple of years. >> > >> > --Peter >> > >> > (*) For people for whom English is not your first language, "making >> out" is mid-century slang for hugging, kissing, petting, etc., as long as >> the "etc." didn't go beyond a certain point. >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information