There's real strangeness in this world of ours. Back in the machine times, there was so much noise front and back, […] it kept us from knowing what l… - James Howard Kunstler

...Abrupt climate change may be normal in the planet's history, or, to state it differently, that the earth's [sic] climate is inherently very unstable.

You could argue people are generally better off now mentally than they were back then. We follow the natural cycles. We eat real food instead of processed crap full of chemicals. We're not jacked up on coffee and television and... advertising all the time. No more anxiety about credit card bills.

Living by the clock was an old habit that died hard. Not much that we did required punctuality, but people still wanted to know what time it was.