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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 27, 2015 15:14:21 GMT -5
Were there forthcoming years that filled you with anxiety, trepidation, insecurity and driving you to complete your bucket list?
When you lived as long a life as me there certainly where years in the future where I along with others thought something huge would happen and not in a good way. Here's my list. Please note: I had to wait for someone to invent a calendar before I could be fearful of what was coming up
1968- I watched the movie The Time Machine with Rod Taylor many times on TV in the mid 60s. Rod's trip into the future had him stop in the year 1968 where the city was filled with the sound of air raid sirens and everyone running to a fallout shelter. Sure enough, WWIII kicks off with atomic bomb blasts that Rod barely escapes by going further in the future. For those living in the 60s, Atomic War always seemed a possibility and in the USA, what with the Vietnam War, campus unrest, the civil rights marches and riots, it always seemed civilization was beginning to crumble and revolution was moments away. In France, street revolutions where actually taking place. 1968 was the year of assassinations such as MLK and Robert Kennedy as well. It seemed very likely the end was near
1984-Who could ask for more? Getting closer and closer to George Orwell's novel you can see how much of it was coming true. The government was watching you as revelations about FBI and CIA surveillance on private citizens were coming to the surface. Technology to invade your privacy was no longer the stuff of fantasy. Media was being consolidated and controlled by a small group of corporations that fed you the news as how they wanted you to be fed. Yes we got past that year but as it is now, privacy is dead and everything you do (unless you live in a cave) is in a databank
2000- Y2K was coming, computers were going to crash, nuclear missiles might mistakenly take off, your bank account will be frozen and 1999 would be your final chance to party so live like a Prince while you can and start stocking up for whats about to happen. The Art Bell Radio show touched upon this subject just about every day for over a year
2012- The Mayans couldn't be wrong, not with all those virgins they sacrificed. Hell, they decided to bail out before it happened
There's no specific year at the present time that I'm dreading. We got past the Terminator's end of days as well. In the 1970s scientists predicted a coming ice age around the corner. Now they are saying ice caps are melting and soon the water will reach my 7th floor window and polar bears will climb through it in search of an ice berg to rest on.
What have you dreaded and what do you dread now? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2015 15:40:14 GMT -5
Mine is yet to come.
When the Whore of Revelation 17 is identified.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 28, 2015 9:23:54 GMT -5
Mine is yet to come. When the Whore of Revelation 17 is identified. Trump? |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 28, 2015 9:30:27 GMT -5
I haven't had any particular years that I dreaded, other than for personal reasons. For example, the years I started out unemployed or at a job I particularly hated.
Y2K was kind of a joke to me. Working with computers I was quite busy with patching the BIOS for computers at numerous companies, so I knew that any responsible company was not going to have any major problems. And got a good laugh from all the people who were buying solar stoves and stockpiling canned goods for when society collapsed and their cars wouldn't even start. Seriously, at that time even the clock in the cars weren't set with the date so how would the car even know when the new year started?
And the Mayan 2012 thing was hilarious. I mean if they were smart enough to predict the end of the world, why are they extinct?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 28, 2015 10:24:02 GMT -5
I didn't fear 2013, but in hindsight I really should have! It was the year of fire, it was the year of destruction.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 28, 2015 10:33:06 GMT -5
And the Mayan 2012 thing was hilarious. I mean if they were smart enough to predict the end of the world, why are they extinct? True, true! But in their defense, it's not the Mayans who predicted the end of the world for 2012, it's the Nostradamus-Reptilian Overlords-Bermuda triangle crowd who decided to interpret the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar as the end of times. The same bozos tried to prove that the Egyptians had somehow included the date of World War II in the specs of the pyramid of Gizah while passing over things like the end of their own empire. One has to marvel at the richness of human imagination, but it often acts like an excited colt stung by a bee! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 28, 2015 13:00:22 GMT -5
The fear years for future generations according to this popular song from Zagar and Evans
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
Read more: Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525 Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 28, 2015 14:59:50 GMT -5
I was just reading MTU 45-46 (1975) this morning. Spider-Man travels through time to battle Martians with Killraven in the far-flung future of. . .2019! So, basically three years from now. Then, he attempts to return to 1975 but comes up short, teaming up with Deathlok in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that once was NYC. A grim Deathlok greets Spider-Man with, "Welcome to 1990!"
It just goes to show how incredibly prescient was the great Yogi Berra when he said, "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 28, 2015 17:10:34 GMT -5
I was just reading MTU 45-46 (1975) this morning. Spider-Man travels through time to battle Martians with Killraven in the far-flung future of. . .2019! So, basically three years from now. Then, he attempts to return to 1975 but comes up short, teaming up with Deathlok in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that once was NYC. A grim Deathlok greets Spider-Man with, "Welcome to 1990!"
It just goes to show how incredibly prescient was the great Yogi Berra when he said, "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." NYC was a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1990. Thankfully it got better |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 28, 2015 17:33:25 GMT -5
Another scare of an upcoming apocalypse that I recall from the very late 60s/ very early 70s was the biggest earthquake in recorded history due to strike California sending everything west of the Rocky Mountains sliding into the Pacific Ocean. Many were convinced it was coming very soon and was a hot topic. It permeated pop culture as well besides quickie paperbacks. For instance this song got a bunch of radio play from a one-hit band. And its pretty good too-I've remembered it after all these years The subject even drove the plot for an issue of Aquaman in 1970- #53 by Steve Skeats and Jim Aparo  |
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Post by Action Ace on Dec 28, 2015 17:39:30 GMT -5
The fear years for future generations according to this popular song from Zagar and Evans In the year 2525, if man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms hangin' limp at your sides Your legs got nothin' to do Some machine's doin' that for you In the year 6565 You won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube In the year 7510 If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say Guess it's time for the judgment day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it down, and start again In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday Read more: Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525 Lyrics | MetroLyrics My fear is this song coming up on the radio. |
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Post by Action Ace on Dec 28, 2015 17:41:27 GMT -5
I was just reading MTU 45-46 (1975) this morning. Spider-Man travels through time to battle Martians with Killraven in the far-flung future of. . .2019! So, basically three years from now. Then, he attempts to return to 1975 but comes up short, teaming up with Deathlok in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that once was NYC. A grim Deathlok greets Spider-Man with, "Welcome to 1990!"
It just goes to show how incredibly prescient was the great Yogi Berra when he said, "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future." Those were my first two issues of Marvel Team Up. I haven't read a Killraven or Deathlok comic since. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 28, 2015 17:47:27 GMT -5
Another scare of an upcoming apocalypse that I recall from the very late 60s/ very early 70s was the biggest earthquake in recorded history due to strike California sending everything west of the Rocky Mountains sliding into the Atlantic Ocean. While that would almost be worth seeing, I think you meant Pacific.  No matter. It calls to mind:
Otisburgh?!
 
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 28, 2015 17:50:45 GMT -5
Those were my first two issues of Marvel Team Up. I haven't read a Killraven or Deathlok comic since. So, is that because they represented a Gold Standard of Excellence, or because they were so wretched that they put you off the characters forever? |
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Post by realjla on Dec 28, 2015 18:06:12 GMT -5
The early-80s TV cartoon, "Thundarr the Barbarian" had me worried about the forthcoming destruction of civilization in the year 1994(that city that's here, won't be there no more...)
Never read "Deathlok", but I did get the Marvel Tales reprint of that MTU issue. I guess the apocalyptic event was in 1983. I recall getting a Captain America issue in '83 that was part of a continued story trying to retcon that event out of existence.
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No matter. It calls to mind: