Wednesday, January 5, 2011

History, context

Putting the bomb shelter mentality of the 50's into context.

Glen Reynolds:

Yeah, you watch those 1950 civil-defense films and you realize the pipe-smoking dad stockpiling supplies in the basement is probably a World War II vet who just a few years before had most likely either dropped bombs or had them dropped on him (or both). Kind of puts a different color on it.

Indeed.

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