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Ordinary World
Dec. 19th, 2021 08:40 am.
I grew up in the cold-war years of the sixties. I remember all the buzz of a potential nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the fear engenderment surrounding public service announcements, tests of The Emergency Broadcast System, posters and Civil Defense publications.
My dad was a teacher and someone at the high school had given him a 1962 Civil Defense publication entitled "Family Shelter Designs". Oh boy, just what I wanted to think about...crawling into some homemade shelter made with asbestos board. At least, I could die of mesothelioma instead of being irradiated by a nuclear blast.
Or mom, could crank the air-blower to feed in contaminated air so we could eventually emerge to pee and engage in apocalyptic fighting for uncontaminated food. Why, we might even be able to survive for an additional week of untold pain and suffering. Wouldn't that be nice?
The security of an ordinary world is often a very elusive thing.
I grew up in the cold-war years of the sixties. I remember all the buzz of a potential nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the fear engenderment surrounding public service announcements, tests of The Emergency Broadcast System, posters and Civil Defense publications.
My dad was a teacher and someone at the high school had given him a 1962 Civil Defense publication entitled "Family Shelter Designs". Oh boy, just what I wanted to think about...crawling into some homemade shelter made with asbestos board. At least, I could die of mesothelioma instead of being irradiated by a nuclear blast.
Or mom, could crank the air-blower to feed in contaminated air so we could eventually emerge to pee and engage in apocalyptic fighting for uncontaminated food. Why, we might even be able to survive for an additional week of untold pain and suffering. Wouldn't that be nice?
The security of an ordinary world is often a very elusive thing.
