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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 1, 2024 21:36:00 GMT
In a scene from the “Gone Are The Days” files, Beatty’s character boards an airliner, finds his seat and then proceeds to buy his ticket from the flight attendant. Actually, that blew my mind that one can just get on a plane on a wimp and pay on board like on a train. I never knew this plane travel feature ever existed. No way this can be allowed nowadays. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 2, 2024 2:32:01 GMT
In a scene from the “Gone Are The Days” files, Beatty’s character boards an airliner, finds his seat and then proceeds to buy his ticket from the flight attendant. Actually, that blew my mind that one can just get on a plane on a wimp and pay on board like on a train. I never knew this plane travel feature ever existed. No way this can be allowed nowadays. Commercial air travel was then already in the midst of transitioning from the era of aspiring to the comfort, service and elegance that ships and trains had once offered to the era of "busses with wings." And now, busses themselves, along with their urban counterparts of streetcar and local light rail (above or below ground), are the only mass conveyances one can board without attendant security apparatuses. Simply get on, pay your fare, sit down and get where you're going, just as they were 100 or more years ago. It's both nice and remarkable that there are trappings of modern, mechanized society that remain unaffected by the passage of time. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 2, 2024 18:33:00 GMT
Actually, that blew my mind that one can just get on a plane on a wimp and pay on board like on a train. I never knew this plane travel feature ever existed. No way this can be allowed nowadays. Commercial air travel was then already in the midst of transitioning from the era of aspiring to the comfort, service and elegance that ships and trains had once offered to the era of "busses with wings." And now, busses themselves, along with their urban counterparts of streetcar and local light rail (above or below ground), are the only mass conveyances one can board without attendant security apparatuses. Simply get on, pay your fare, sit down and get where you're going, just as they were 100 or more years ago. It's both nice and remarkable that there are trappings of modern, mechanized society that remain unaffected by the passage of time. Talking about attendant security apparatuses, the NYC subway system here is such a mess in violence and crime that our "Governor" sent in the National Guard to survey and monitor the stations for suspicious individuals. Even after that, I am still hearing incidence in subway or at the station almost everyday on the news. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 3, 2024 0:36:43 GMT
Commercial air travel was then already in the midst of transitioning from the era of aspiring to the comfort, service and elegance that ships and trains had once offered to the era of "busses with wings." And now, busses themselves, along with their urban counterparts of streetcar and local light rail (above or below ground), are the only mass conveyances one can board without attendant security apparatuses. Simply get on, pay your fare, sit down and get where you're going, just as they were 100 or more years ago. It's both nice and remarkable that there are trappings of modern, mechanized society that remain unaffected by the passage of time. Talking about attendant security apparatuses, the NYC subway system here is such a mess in violence and crime that our "Governor" sent in the National Guard to survey and monitor the stations for suspicious individuals. Even after that, I am still hearing incidence in subway or at the station almost everyday on the news. Reminds me of the horror stories we heard on the west coast back in the '60s - '70s about the subways and Manhattan in general. The reported rates of recent increase in crime vary wildly, from 13% to 40%, depending on the source. Authorities report most to remain in the realm of theft (cellphones, bags, etc) and robbery, but the most alarming are the ones involving violence, from personal disputes to seemingly random attacks. I happened to see that video of an entitled woman who purposefully walked up to a busker playing a cello in the station, whacked him on the back of his head with a hard object, then strolled away as casually as if she'd just been at an ATM. And it was the second time it had happened to him. Maybe ones like that attract the most attention, but incidents of that nature are by no means restricted to NYC or any region; they've burgeoned from coast to coast in recent years. I don't mean to get all "meta," but they point to a steadily eroding civilization: something ticks you off; shout and scream; break things; hit someone or even pull out a knife or gun and the hell with any self-control. I'm sure my grandparents or others of their generation a century ago shook their heads and clicked their tongues about a breakdown of society: jazz music and untamed youth; bootlegging and speakeasies; organized crime and rampant immorality. And maybe the imminent back-to-back traumas of worldwide depression and war even temporarily arrested that breakdown in a perverse sort of way. But I wonder just how much farther we can go until we reach a precipice from which there's no backing away. Jeez, what an old curmudgeon I've become, stepping onto a soapbox and sounding off. I don't usually weaken to that degree until the weekend is upon us. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 3, 2024 15:12:13 GMT
Don't be so hard on yourself, Mr. Doghouse. Your post made a lot of sense to me. I can relate to everything you said, and I appreciate you posting a stream of thoughts that I, myself, am too tired and cynical to put down into words anymore!
Doghouse6,
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 3, 2024 19:38:43 GMT
Don't be so hard on yourself, Mr. Doghouse. Your post made a lot of sense to me. I can relate to everything you said, and I appreciate you posting a stream of thoughts that I, myself, am too tired and cynical to put down into words anymore!
Your encouragement is as kind as you are, ZR. If it's not too presumptuous on someone else's thread* to extend the same encouragement to you, I do so. *In any case, a thread about one of the memorable "paranoid thrillers" of the '70s involving shadowy conspiracies seems an appropriate enough place to express our cynicism...ya think? |
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