THE WAY WE ARE NOW…IS JUST LIKE THE WAY WE WERE…THEN
(…considering songs for Armageddon)

Years ago (what some call…the way-back-when) we were at the height of the Cold War, and the world seemed to be racing away to hell…in a hand basket. The Kingston Trio had summed it up neatly for us all with their ironic ballad about how…they’re starving in Africa, and rioting in Spain, something else is wrong somewhere, and Texas needs rain, while with mushroom clouds we’ll blow ourselves away…or lyrics to that effect.

After all that time our world is still in a mess. Only the names of the players and the venues have changed…nothing else….as we keep moving in a continuum of crises upon crises, both naturally and human caused. Except…the age of insta-gram technology…now seems to make things much more acute, and life…that more intense.

Well, perhaps the following graphics from that time sums it all up best.

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