Do you keep a personal record of modern history?

baby you talk too much, pass the blunt...
but seriously why all the threads like this?

Originally Posted by Urca

baby you talk too much, pass the blunt...
but seriously why all the threads like this?

Because TITS!

Originally Posted by Padawanbater2

I just hope I don't spend my 30's, 40's & 50's on in some scarce resource type poverty, scrounging for resources just to survive...

Preparedness is all that will help, I wouldn't rely on hope too much. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Urca

baby you talk too much, pass the blunt...
but seriously why all the threads like this?

You bitch too much.

Originally Posted by Urca

baby you talk too much, pass the blunt...
but seriously why all the threads like this?

Me thinks teenage angst.

OP reminds me of myself when I was the age I think he is, lol.

Originally Posted by Padawanbater2

Things like 9-11, Osama Bin Ladin's death, major political events, events that shape history.. Do you keep track of them in any kind of personal way? I've known people who go pick up the newspaper when a major event happens, the Challenger explosion, just random stuff that makes national headlines..

I'd like to start doing this, at 25, in 2012, Curiosity just landed on Mars, stuff happens every couple years. I was thinking about starting some kind of historical logbook, to look back on and remember exactly how I felt during a specific time or event. Who knows what might happen, it would be interesting to look back 40 years from now on all the Y2K type stuff that's going to happen from now till then, random predictions.. I can imagine the book somebody with the same idea might have created from the 60's on! lol, hopefully it'll be just as interesting!

I'm predicting the collapse of the United States, I mean, as we understand it to be today, within the next 20-30 years.. It's sad, but I'm just trying to be realistic, I don't think there's much that'll be able to save the economy at this point..

Presidents will try but it'll be futile.. The housing bubble collapsed, the college bubble is going to follow within 3-5 years. Our economy is in a state of turmoil. China will take the dominant economic lead around 2020 and America will hopefully recover around 2030-2040 and emerge again as a competing world power, but I don't know shit about world economies or commerce, so this is all wishful thinking. I just hope I don't spend my 30's, 40's & 50's on in some scarce resource type poverty, scrounging for resources just to survive... But honestly, the way it looks at the moment, that scenario isn't some distant dystopian future.. Politicians of the present don't give a damn about people, they just care about their families and what'll ensure their power in the world.. There are enough gullible people still buying the American dream story who support and vote for em, so that's the world we live in..

I think there's some kind of change going on, a lot of people seem to be getting used to info from the internet, where a lot of the restrictions from previous sources prevented real information from being seen. So hopefully in a year or two we'll see some dramatic changes. This is the most effective tool we can use these days, imo..

luckily for you everything today is documented, better than it has ever been throughout history , with newspapers ,national records ,film , internet , etc etc etc , i cant even take a shit in the street nowadays without someone whipping out there mobile phone to record me ,but it might be fun to document things yourself on a personal level.

there was a great documentary on British telly last year , where a film company asked the members of the British public to send ANY old film they had from the last 50 years , just any random shit like , a day at the beach in the 70s or something , they then edited it all together to show an amazing look back at life , it was totally fascinating to see the clothes , the cars , the haircuts lol the shops and everything else you completely forget about .

yes, mine started the day Gore lost the popular vote and GWB had a second term gifted by the electoral college, contrary to the peoples choice. watched a surplus turn into the largest deficit ever in existence, and took part in cultural, and selective genocide under the guise of OIF. build a seed vault, grow your own food, and buy some chickens. the food shortage hasn't even begun yet.