What a great topic. What I thought the future would look like, and what it has become are virtual contradictions. Where do I even start? Okay, let's start with our kids and the school system. Our public school system is a JOKE. Kids can go from an F to an A like nothing. They get tons of credit points for simply having a grade sheet signed. The teachers and kids get more ridiculous days off than ever before and almost never assign the kids homework. I guess they just show up for a paycheck. Do you know I had to teach my kids how to read a clock? Seriously! And not when they were small. When they were teenagers! The school system assumed everything was digital so they were never taught. And we pay unGodly amounts of money for supplies. The schools do NOTHING. So education is a pale shadow of what we had.
Television is almost unwatchable. We are so buried in sexual innuendo, you think the writers never get out of the sack to create a script. It's embarrassing. And the cultural 'sensitivity' to shows is laughable, if not down right hypocritical. Our society enjoys lying to itself. Oddly most shows that were popular in the 70's could not survive today, without riots in the streets! Could you see 'All in the Family', 'The Jefferson's' or 'Sanford & Son' on prime time? All of those shows talked about cultural differences and biases. They made you think. Today no brain is required.
Now movies are something else. In the day when we watched Spider-man and the Hulk on TV, no one would DARE dream of the technology and subsequent industry we have today. THAT has been an incredible surprise and one I don't take for granted. I'm still in awe when I see Spider-man fighting Doc Ock. That just blows my mind because I never expected to see an image quite that convincing in my life time.
Computers have been both a blessing and a curse. It goes without saying Ebay (and other online auctions) completely changed the face of my collection. What was once thought unreachable and not likely to be seen anymore, have found it's way to my shelves again, and again, and again. Most of the Holy Grails of my childhood have been restored and once incomplete collections are now whole. And the Mego Museum is quite frankly a blessing. I love this forum. I actually don't participate on any other forum than this. No interest. This one covers everything from vintage and current toy lines to current events. Heck I get my news here or report it myself! No better site in the world! Of course I could go on and on about other aspects of the here and now. But I'll leave it on a good note.
Television is almost unwatchable. We are so buried in sexual innuendo, you think the writers never get out of the sack to create a script. It's embarrassing. And the cultural 'sensitivity' to shows is laughable, if not down right hypocritical. Our society enjoys lying to itself. Oddly most shows that were popular in the 70's could not survive today, without riots in the streets! Could you see 'All in the Family', 'The Jefferson's' or 'Sanford & Son' on prime time? All of those shows talked about cultural differences and biases. They made you think. Today no brain is required.
Now movies are something else. In the day when we watched Spider-man and the Hulk on TV, no one would DARE dream of the technology and subsequent industry we have today. THAT has been an incredible surprise and one I don't take for granted. I'm still in awe when I see Spider-man fighting Doc Ock. That just blows my mind because I never expected to see an image quite that convincing in my life time.
Computers have been both a blessing and a curse. It goes without saying Ebay (and other online auctions) completely changed the face of my collection. What was once thought unreachable and not likely to be seen anymore, have found it's way to my shelves again, and again, and again. Most of the Holy Grails of my childhood have been restored and once incomplete collections are now whole. And the Mego Museum is quite frankly a blessing. I love this forum. I actually don't participate on any other forum than this. No interest. This one covers everything from vintage and current toy lines to current events. Heck I get my news here or report it myself! No better site in the world! Of course I could go on and on about other aspects of the here and now. But I'll leave it on a good note.

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