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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

What a dream. Thank you.

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epimetheus's avatar

It once was a dream, a dream that, to my understanding, meant: limited government + limitless human potential.

Where are we today? I suppose in an upside-down world of limitless gov't - human autonomy.

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Candy's avatar

Thank you. I love the glimpse into a simpler and safer world.

California was once a beautiful place. My dad used to tell me about the orange groves in southern california when he was a kid. And searching around town for pop bottles to return so he could buy a tamale from the wagon.

When I was a kid, we went to visit relatives in Los Angeles and one time we talked my mom into taking us to the beach. We came home with oil stuck to us from a spill. She was so mad (as she scrubbed us with turpentine Lol)

But all those places are still beautiful in my mind-the Southern California beaches and watching fireworks in the park, San Francisco wharves and cable cars, Monterey and Santa Cruz, the Big Trees and the Redwoods. Gone, but not forgotten

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epimetheus's avatar

Same with my childhood memories about a seemingly 'simpler' or 'easier' time.

Hang on to those memories, for they are the blueprint of the future.

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Rikard's avatar

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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epimetheus's avatar

Sigh.

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