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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWere you in college in 60s? Did you fear you'd end your life in a dystopia?
I was in grad school. So much changed, so much progress was made.
Yet still at times I'd wake up just sure that despite all that my life would end in some wretched dystopia.
no_hypocrisy
(46,191 posts)Silly me.
lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)anamnua
(1,119 posts)if you can remember the 60s you werent there maaaan.
Sneederbunk
(14,303 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,806 posts)former9thward
(32,082 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)The whole time since has been kind of a letdown, in that respect.
Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Science, technology and the perfectability of human nature were my touchstones.
Then in 2004 I realized that global civilization already had one foot over the precipice, and my entire world fell apart.
Life kind of sucks these days.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)but I do recall being somewhat morose about an impending dystopia. On Earth Day, 1970, we were told that the world would be completely fucked up by 2000, with people stacked up, sea to sea.
Of course, it never happened.
murielm99
(30,764 posts)twenty years or so. Maybe corpses will be stacked up sea to sea.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's surreal. I honestly feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)and the insanity of ray-gun. I never believed anything less. nt