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Cool, but why?
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That's just because we remember when they were cheap and plentiful is all.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/faul...bcc5&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&mbid=CRMNYR012019
Most Americans believe that we are in deeply polarized times; sixty-five per cent of respondents to a Pew survey last year said that they were “exhausted” when thinking about politics. Those of us who have appointed ourselves stewards of discourse have spent a great deal of energy trying to build some consensus, however imaginary and manufactured, but we are losing. Journalists have published fact-checks of politicians, government officials have created short-lived boards to combat disinformation, school systems have adopted media-literacy curricula to teach children how to take in what’s good and reject what’s bad. These efforts are largely driven by the hope that if we can control the inputs of the information ecosystem, and pump in a lot of truth and democracy, we might be able to save the country from irrevocable internal conflict. But what if the inputs don’t actually matter? What if it’s the technology itself?
Forty years ago, the late Neil Postman delivered a keynote address at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which, that year, had taken George Orwell and his works as its special topic, with particular reference to “1984.” The book’s dark prophecy of a world controlled by the censorious hand of Big Brother hadn’t come to pass, at least in a literal sense, but there were still many questions—as there are today—about where we might see Big Brother’s shadow. Postman, an education scholar at New York University, insisted that if we wanted to understand how the masses would be controlled, we shouldn’t look to Orwell but rather to his contemporary Aldous Huxley. Postman’s talk became a book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” In the foreword, he lays out the distinction between the two authors’ visions of the future: “Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
And on and on, before and after.
Most Americans believe that we are in deeply polarized times; sixty-five per cent of respondents to a Pew survey last year said that they were “exhausted” when thinking about politics. Those of us who have appointed ourselves stewards of discourse have spent a great deal of energy trying to build some consensus, however imaginary and manufactured, but we are losing. Journalists have published fact-checks of politicians, government officials have created short-lived boards to combat disinformation, school systems have adopted media-literacy curricula to teach children how to take in what’s good and reject what’s bad. These efforts are largely driven by the hope that if we can control the inputs of the information ecosystem, and pump in a lot of truth and democracy, we might be able to save the country from irrevocable internal conflict. But what if the inputs don’t actually matter? What if it’s the technology itself?
Forty years ago, the late Neil Postman delivered a keynote address at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which, that year, had taken George Orwell and his works as its special topic, with particular reference to “1984.” The book’s dark prophecy of a world controlled by the censorious hand of Big Brother hadn’t come to pass, at least in a literal sense, but there were still many questions—as there are today—about where we might see Big Brother’s shadow. Postman, an education scholar at New York University, insisted that if we wanted to understand how the masses would be controlled, we shouldn’t look to Orwell but rather to his contemporary Aldous Huxley. Postman’s talk became a book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” In the foreword, he lays out the distinction between the two authors’ visions of the future: “Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
And on and on, before and after.
There is that.
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$175 for an M1 from the CMP. Of course, it was also one for your lifetime, too.
They're all over the internet today for 2 grand . . . .
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That's only the start. I have a local friend that started scarfing up CMP stuff early on. When we get on the subject he shows me his receipts. A couple of M1' for $21 ea., an O3A3 for $15.50, and some 1911's for $9.00 ea.
A friend of mines grandfather was a Colt collector. He had an example of EVERYTHING Colt ever made in pristine condition save one, a Colt Patterson 9" barrel. (I don't think he ever got one.) He ran a bait and tackle shop in Melbourne Fl. and had a bunch of cases like they display jewelry in around the shop, one filled with P08's, one filled with Broom Handles, one filled with 1911's, even had on half filled with LeMat Specials................he called those stashes his "trading material.'
A friend of mines grandfather was a Colt collector. He had an example of EVERYTHING Colt ever made in pristine condition save one, a Colt Patterson 9" barrel. (I don't think he ever got one.) He ran a bait and tackle shop in Melbourne Fl. and had a bunch of cases like they display jewelry in around the shop, one filled with P08's, one filled with Broom Handles, one filled with 1911's, even had on half filled with LeMat Specials................he called those stashes his "trading material.'
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I remember the early 80's gun shows where mosins were 10 each, buy 10 get one free
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Truth is, I have a whole lot more hundreds today than I had sawbucks then.
Old car pricing seems to be beginning to trend the other way. The people who remembered what that stuff was are dying like flies, and their estates will make a deal to get something instead of nothing. The rare ones are still rich kid playthings, but the less fancy or standard models, not so much.
Old car pricing seems to be beginning to trend the other way. The people who remembered what that stuff was are dying like flies, and their estates will make a deal to get something instead of nothing. The rare ones are still rich kid playthings, but the less fancy or standard models, not so much.
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OK, that makes sense but by the time you get it unlimbered the bear done et ya.
If you are going through town you don't stand out... except for your 1911 chest rig which you can cover with a gay pride bandana.
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Observing that 29 states now have Constitutional Carry, here's a video. Constitutional Carry, for pussies who don't know shit from a good grade of peanut butter, means that there are now all manner of people out in public with a gun on their person, and they're not breaking the law in so doing.
Here's supposing that you manlettes will want to get an Amazon scheduled refill order of Depends lined up for yourselves.
Here's supposing that you manlettes will want to get an Amazon scheduled refill order of Depends lined up for yourselves.
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