We didn't have the "green thing" back in our day....(a most enjoyable read!)

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10. Sorry but "back then" was the 50s and thats when we invented the disposable consumer culture

this Idiotic Internet Essay is bemoaning. After the depression and the rationing of WWII, people couldn't consume enough shit fast enough. The essay fixes itself in time in the 50s by claiming the shitty black and white tvs of that era as an exemplar of frugality. It then proceeds to make all sorts of idiotic claims about that era.

Escalators have been around since the Otis Elevator Company built one in 1899.

Ballpoint pens, seriously? Ever used a fountain pen? A real one, not the disposable cartridge kind?

Why stop with the horrors of disposable razors compared to disposable razor blades? Real home-towny mainstream old fashioned Americans used straight razors and a stropping leather.

Homes had more than one outlet per room. I lived in one. So did all my friends. They indeed did not have enough outlets. They also had extension cord trees that routinely caused fires. Best we should go back to that system and fuse boxes too. Plus coal furnaces, those were pretty nifty.

The anti-green motif of the essay betrays its rightwing faux nostalgia for a recent past that never was.

Who exactly is bemoaning the fact that people 50 years ago didn't recycle? How about nobody?