Quote from: Balthazar on December 06, 2015, 01:28:56 PM

Quote from: bryant.coleman on December 06, 2015, 08:38:39 AM

Quote from: Spendulus on December 06, 2015, 05:06:55 AM

But they shouldn't get to pick and choose what they go retro on. If they want to pork the kiddies, how about no mobile phones, no internet, no cars. Camels only.

That is exactly what they are trying to achieve. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan during the late 1990s, they banned all forms of entertainment, including television, radio.etc. Taking pictures of living things were banned. I am not sure whether they banned mobile phones, cars.etc, but they "successfully" managed to force those who were living under their reign to a stone-age like existence.

They've successfully stopped production of opium, at least. That's an actual reason why the US decided to intervene and establish another "democratic" regime.

What I´ve found especially amazing for as long as I remember is how so many people actually believe in full the sales pitches for such an intrinsically hard-sell as war is (to most sane people that is). These people are very used to salesmen of everything else adjusting the truth to suit their ends. And probably not gullible enough to take all of that seriously. But somehow salesmen of war are supposed to be different and paragons of truth. I guess these people think that they´re so smart that they could never vote serial-lying sacks of shit into office.