Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Times weren't, but people were. Big difference. Lack of information leads to being uninformed. The less one knows, the more innocent one is. Like kids, indeed. (However one could discuss if a kid of 6 from now isn't less innocent than a kid of the same age back then.) That's all I was saying. Op 15-mrt-07, om 22:45 heeft John Collier het volgende geschreven: > Times of our youth are always viewed as rosy and life seemed, > relatively, simpler then. > > Let's see, back then we had: > > the tail end of WW2, > Korea, > Stalinism, > revolution in China, > more colonial wars than I can comfortably list (including a few > minor skirmishes in a certain small french colony), > the Cold War, > nuclear bomb drills in schools, > a constant succession of sex scandals in political and cultural life, > terrorists/freedom fighters doing their thing, > the various religious groups buggering children to beat the band... > > Could you remind me again how things actually were more innocent > back then? > > John Collier > > On 15-Mar-07, at 2:51 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> Kids will always be innocent, but I truly believe that people in >> general were more innocent, too. >> We know a lot more know and have a lot more sources to gather >> information and to form our opinion than, let's say, 50 years ago. >> For all the other things that people lacked back then, I don't >> envy these times, though. >> >> >> Op 15-mrt-07, om 21:29 heeft Ric Carter het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Those times weren't innocent, we were. >>> >>> Ric >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>> Such innocent times... > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >