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When I think about all the things that my father's generation has been through, I don't feel that I have been through all that many significant changes:
- The change from an agricultural society to an industrial one
- The advent of the automobile and air travel
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal (Social Security, etc..)
- World War II
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Electronic, Nuclear, and Space ages
- The advent of computers and the Information Age
We could be on the cusp of an economic breakdown but will probably not know it for years. I imagine when it comes though it will be like a thief in the night and happen quite rapidly. We will probably be able to point back to something similar to the market crash in 1929 and say that was the start of it all. Our government will surely fail and our country will break up like all those that have come before us but it does not seem like it is imminent.
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