I always thought we were about the same age, Mr L, was wondering how you escaped the "you're all going to die of nuclear annihilation" of the early 1980s. I genuinely believed the world would end before I made it to 13... (thanks Raymond Briggs and co for the still-haunting memories!)
Re: the orange-dressed hippies following Osho, he was an unusual character indeed. Had a lot more than 12 Rolls Royces (he had over 90 at the end, and while it was obviously a greedy power play he did make some funny religious observations with the fleet, not least in how interested in the cars the local priests and religious leaders were and how they perked up when he had offered the cars to those pious types). Unfortunately he was also addicted to laughing gas and sleeping with his sannyasins. But I don't recall his being a doomsday cult. I was a follower of his (after his demise and oblivious to his darker more fraudulent side) for a few years before getting a sound telling off from a Buddhist monk at a Nepalese monastery. Still find his teaching and humour to be relevant tho. Check out "Bhagwan, the God That Failed" by his former bodyguard Hugh Milne, really fascinating firsthand account ending up with the poisoning of a town before a local election.
I'm a child of the 70s and our end was predicted as a result of the Nuclear arms race, or through electrocution or a vehicle accident. By our time we didn't get visitors, they just showed us films (on a projector and it came in a tin, about half the size of 35mm) of potential mishaps with overhead cables or substations or being "run over" by a car. TV was all about Nuclear proliferation and fictional accounts of Nuclear war.
Getting stuff done is a fascinating problem - we seem wont to dismantle the institutions that used to be at the forefront of negotiating treaties. The challenge as I get older (not as old as you Robert) is that we appreciate the complexity and scale of the problem. I admire your pragmatism.
For the clothing and the shoes made from oil, is that actually an issue? I know there will be some burning of oil involved somewhere in making the products, but for the oil that isn't burnt surely that's actually ok, because it's not polluting the atmosphere? It's not that much different from other mined materials is it?
I always thought we were about the same age, Mr L, was wondering how you escaped the "you're all going to die of nuclear annihilation" of the early 1980s. I genuinely believed the world would end before I made it to 13... (thanks Raymond Briggs and co for the still-haunting memories!)
Re: the orange-dressed hippies following Osho, he was an unusual character indeed. Had a lot more than 12 Rolls Royces (he had over 90 at the end, and while it was obviously a greedy power play he did make some funny religious observations with the fleet, not least in how interested in the cars the local priests and religious leaders were and how they perked up when he had offered the cars to those pious types). Unfortunately he was also addicted to laughing gas and sleeping with his sannyasins. But I don't recall his being a doomsday cult. I was a follower of his (after his demise and oblivious to his darker more fraudulent side) for a few years before getting a sound telling off from a Buddhist monk at a Nepalese monastery. Still find his teaching and humour to be relevant tho. Check out "Bhagwan, the God That Failed" by his former bodyguard Hugh Milne, really fascinating firsthand account ending up with the poisoning of a town before a local election.
I'm a child of the 70s and our end was predicted as a result of the Nuclear arms race, or through electrocution or a vehicle accident. By our time we didn't get visitors, they just showed us films (on a projector and it came in a tin, about half the size of 35mm) of potential mishaps with overhead cables or substations or being "run over" by a car. TV was all about Nuclear proliferation and fictional accounts of Nuclear war.
Getting stuff done is a fascinating problem - we seem wont to dismantle the institutions that used to be at the forefront of negotiating treaties. The challenge as I get older (not as old as you Robert) is that we appreciate the complexity and scale of the problem. I admire your pragmatism.
For the clothing and the shoes made from oil, is that actually an issue? I know there will be some burning of oil involved somewhere in making the products, but for the oil that isn't burnt surely that's actually ok, because it's not polluting the atmosphere? It's not that much different from other mined materials is it?