Enchanted_Bunny

I would imagine a $600 house would be a total gut job.

I loved how the Caesar Flickerman interview was depicted (in my mind) as basically the unraveling point of that entire civilization. The beginning of the end. Flickerman is DESPERATELY trying to hold "the old ways" together, but he is being utterly crushed under the weight of the defiant victors. Stanley did an AWESOME job portraying him. You could literally see the panic and fear in his face. He KNOWS that his masterful light-hearted spin on mass-murder has literally unraveled before his eyes and he doesn't know what to do. The real person behind the facade cracks into view for a split second and the lights are cut.

My mom once put a kleenex on her head to read the bible to us.

If they put Judge Judy on Netflix...I'd never leave the house.

I think the effectiveness of immunizations are partially responsible for their own undoing. They're so effective that for a time they had eradicated many childhood diseases that were common in the 50's and early 60's. When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's, I would read books with characters that had the measels, for instance, but to me 'measels' was merely a word. I've never had measels or even seen someone afflicted with it. Same with Whooping Cough, rubella, polio, mumps, etc. Those diseases didn't exist in my world. I only met one polio survivor in my entire life, and he was a very old man in a wheelchair.

So it's hard for GenXers and Millenials like me to truly grasp the threat those diseases present. Because we never spent any of our time worried about them, they're not a threat. In the vast majority of cases, if we don't get a vaccine and don't vaccinate our kids, nothing happens.

Essentially, because my generation didn't grow up with the diseases we're now immunized against, it's difficult for us to judge based on our own personal experience the danger these diseases present. Our forebearers' had direct experience and thus to them the vaccines were a godsend.