14-07-2012, 05:10 AM
I think that the earlier "objectionable" comments were spoken from a position of "the cheap seats" --no offense intended toward those who made said comments.
My parents were neither "idiots" nor were they reactionaries. Quite the contrary.
There was a "real and present danger" to all of us in the U.S. as there was a "real and present danger" to those in the Soviet Union...as well as the REMAINDER OF THE WORLD.
This is not even in dispute.
However, the "duck and cover" remedy was known by its authors to be IDIOTIC in both its inception and in its impotency. That the employment of such a "strategy" (in response
to a NUCLEAR threat to one's immediate personal safety) was even suggested is far and away the best evidence of the insanity of those who actually believed it was true. Even as
children, had we been given the REAL facts about nuclear explosions, we would have known that "duck and cover" was a ludicrous defense.
So, I see that we have had a mis-communication here. Nothing more.
Carry on children. And do try to get along. :lol:
My parents were neither "idiots" nor were they reactionaries. Quite the contrary.
There was a "real and present danger" to all of us in the U.S. as there was a "real and present danger" to those in the Soviet Union...as well as the REMAINDER OF THE WORLD.
This is not even in dispute.
However, the "duck and cover" remedy was known by its authors to be IDIOTIC in both its inception and in its impotency. That the employment of such a "strategy" (in response
to a NUCLEAR threat to one's immediate personal safety) was even suggested is far and away the best evidence of the insanity of those who actually believed it was true. Even as
children, had we been given the REAL facts about nuclear explosions, we would have known that "duck and cover" was a ludicrous defense.
So, I see that we have had a mis-communication here. Nothing more.
Carry on children. And do try to get along. :lol:
GO_SECURE
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)