[Leica] Moon landing - where were you?

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

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).
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> ?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
>
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>     > 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.
>     >
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