Quote:The late 60s and early 70s were much more tumultuous. The difference is we have technology to spread the idiocy so it seems much worse than it really is.

i absolutely agree. Imho it almost makes our government have to opporate in a shroud of secrecy which people constantly label conspiracy. Whether it is conspiracy or not, I have no idea, but what I do know is the government and higher up officials know a lot more about world relations than anyone else in the country and are forced to make decisions that will effect tens of millions of people every day. Decisions that we couldn't possibly fathom the ramifications or the implication behind. i only hope our government, that has been designed to check and balance itself, makes the correct decisions that are for the greater good of not just the US but people in general.


I actually talked about this the other day with my buddy. If social media had existed in the 40's, do you think the government would have been able to end the war the way they did with the bomb? I mean once the word got out that we even were conducting something like the manhattan project, cause I feel like somewhere along the line some dip [BLEEP] would have leaked something on social media. Let alone if the magnitude of such a bomb, being able to kill hundreds of thousands, were to spread to social media the way would have it today. Do you think they would have been able to continue with it.


It's a different world we live in. Even idiots are able to get their word out to millions. the unfortunate part is often times more idiots follow then it looks like a movement.

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