Comments on: Britain in 1945 http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kitty http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1262 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:35:59 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1262 I like this. so much calmer than today.

]]> By: Debbie http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1238 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:31:22 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1238 Like Carla this was the Britain my Dad grew up in – he was 18 in 1945 and though some of the paragraph sounds terrible, I also think there was a lot then that was preferable to today. I agree with Carla that we all want things to be too convenient now and we have so much stuff and so much choice. I can see that a lot of time life was grim in 1945 but a shop and pub on every corner sounds good, as does a cinema on every high street. My grandparents went to the Lyons Corner house every week. No retail parks sounds good to me!

]]> By: Susannah http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1237 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:34 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1237 Well said!

]]> By: amy http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1236 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:11:53 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1236 i admit that I am reminiscent for parts of this paragraph and agree with much of what Carla said but I also recognize that it is because of 1945 that there is a 2010 and TV and cell phones and internet and disposable trendy clothing and that I have the choice to accept or reject those items in my life. Such is the role of history, to show us how far we have come or how far we have fallen. No matter what you have or don’t have it is what you do with it and how you approach it that makes the difference.

I also read this with the ewan macgregor trainspotting voice in my head.

]]> By: Carla http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1235 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:20:13 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1235 Sounds SANE to me. Crazy is the fact that now everyone can have as much as they want of everything they DIDN’T have; yet everyone COMPLAINS. People spend their days in front of a TV, have no concept of where their food comes from or their clothes, have little to no pride in appearance (peopleofwalmart.com), etc, etc. Everyone wants everything to be convenient. That Britain of 1945 is the society my Dad was born into, and growing up with a single Mum in govt housing led to that lifestyle being continued his whole childhood and the mentality behind that is the mentality us kids were raised to have….thus I choose a lot of those options above instead of the “modern” and supposedly “better” way. Excellent paragraph.

]]> By: Dominique http://cargocultcraft.com/2010/03/09/britain-in-1945/#comment-1234 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:59:58 +0000 http://cargocultcraft.com/?p=1351#comment-1234 It all sounds so crazy!!

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