"When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smart phones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden."
Rudy Rucker (via wilwheaton)
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. However, in that movie I don’t see that black people are still considered less than human, I don’t see families mourning the sons they lost in WW2, I don’t see boys who are barely men leaving for Vietnam to fight a war that was lost before it even started, I don’t see the looming threat of an intercontinental nuclear war, I don’t see women being not much more than glorified servants and I don’t see gay people, well, at all. Oh sure there are people sitting in a chair and just staring off into space but you know what ? They’re all 40-something upper-class christian white men. I, for one, am glad we got kicked out of that so-called garden of Eden.”
(via wilwheaton)