shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
It's hard to imagine that it's been fifteen years since millions of people woke up relieved (and some badly disappointed) that the beginning of the new century didn't crash all the computers and bring down society.
I remember that all the gun rags, which already were pretty much owned outright by the manufacturers who did the most advertising with them, ran feature articles for months before the turn of the century, advising people to stock up on weapons and ammo to fend off savage hordes of looters and other predators who wanted to rape their guns and steal their women, or something. If I recall correctly, some of these articles had pretty specific recommendations about which weapons and ammunition would be best suited to defense against the collapse. Oddly enough these sometimes were reflected in large ads in those editions. Or so I recall, but my memory isn't what it used to be.
I'm not at all making light of the possibility of things coming unstuck, but in retrospect that panic was vastly overblown.
Sure, I stayed up well past midnight to see if the world as we knew it ended. Today I try to keep an adequate supply of food, etc., in case of a cataclysmic natural disaster. But it's amusing to look back at 01/01/2000 and remember the dire predictions of the self-ordained pundits.
The older I get the more I realize how much like my father I am. Dad was never an alarmist. He believed in prudent preparedness but not panic.
That's me.
I remember that all the gun rags, which already were pretty much owned outright by the manufacturers who did the most advertising with them, ran feature articles for months before the turn of the century, advising people to stock up on weapons and ammo to fend off savage hordes of looters and other predators who wanted to rape their guns and steal their women, or something. If I recall correctly, some of these articles had pretty specific recommendations about which weapons and ammunition would be best suited to defense against the collapse. Oddly enough these sometimes were reflected in large ads in those editions. Or so I recall, but my memory isn't what it used to be.
I'm not at all making light of the possibility of things coming unstuck, but in retrospect that panic was vastly overblown.
Sure, I stayed up well past midnight to see if the world as we knew it ended. Today I try to keep an adequate supply of food, etc., in case of a cataclysmic natural disaster. But it's amusing to look back at 01/01/2000 and remember the dire predictions of the self-ordained pundits.
The older I get the more I realize how much like my father I am. Dad was never an alarmist. He believed in prudent preparedness but not panic.
That's me.
