I remember Civil Defense signs and stockpiles in lots of places; there was, specifically, a cache beneath Duke University's Perkins Library, where some pals and I filmed, using the tunnels for a short science fiction piece that remains raw and unedited decades later.
Today, we're more likely to be responding to broken infrastructure and big accidents than a massive thermonuclear exchange -- which is plenty bad enough anyway, thank you very much.
Energy conservation, more efficient use of what we've already got -- it can be done. It has been done. It will be done again -- when there's the will for it. This is a US Government Printing Office poster from WWII: "Have You REALLY Tried to Save Gas by Getting Into a Car Club?" We did -- in the 1970s.
What more to say than "Victory Waits on YOUR
Fingers --" Whatever that means . . . Type away-- "Keep 'em Flying, Miss U.S.A." From Michigan lately, I hear.
Finally, Graham Parker and the Rumour from 1980: "Stupefaction" (The Up Elevator), Surely many are feeling the same way right about now. Turn up the volume -- nothing seems to matter!
Today's Rune: The Self.
2 comments:
I'd like to hear more about that SF production. a few buds and me did an audio horror story for a folklore class in high school. As I remember, it was fairly cool.
Life is becoming an unedited horror show.
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