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knowltok's avatar

"corporations believed in the public good"

Perhaps we could sit down sometime and share a couple bottles of Great Lakes Brewery's Burning River Pale Ale to discuss the good stewardship companies showed in the 50's.

;-)

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Richard Kane's avatar

I love Burning River!

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Yes, I was oversimplifying. :-) I'm afraid I'd be asleep by the time I finished the bottle. Have little tolerance for alcohol. :-)

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True. I mean, a slogan of "1950's, but this time, for everyone!" wouldn't be too bad.

Still, even if that was your goal, we couldn't really do it again. The world is too different and we're too different. The 50's had a generation shaped and hardened by privation followed by war making their way in a world where only one power really escaped the ravages of that war.

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knowltok's avatar

That's what I said! ;)

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R Mercer's avatar

People do not understand that you cannot have the 50s back unless you pretty much torch the rest of the world while taking essentially no damage to the US... AND you get rid of nuclear weapons except for the US.

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