Down the Garden Path................80 years on !!!

I have posted this item previously, but in the light of todays events I think it worth a second look.

.............."Whenever I opened the paper I saw that my pitiful little holdings in various industrial shares had slid still further down the slope. Everything seemed to be cracking up. England was unutterably weary, America was in the throes of a nervous breakdown, Germany had consumption, Italy was suffering from delusions of grandeur, Spain was about to be sick, Russia had the delirium tremens, and France had an acute attack of hysteria following indigestion. The world seemed vulgar, irrational and dangerous."......

An extract from DOWN THE GARDEN PATH by Beverley Nichols, - May 1932

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Thats exactly what i was thinking we need another world war to fix the ecconomy!

 

"As your little boat struggles thru the warning waves" Ship of Fools, World Party.

 

Ok so what has happened today, should I go out and shoot myself?

 

Count your blessings......I look around the world and see disease,famine,wars,extreme poverty................I suggest a walk round the intesive care wards in our hospitals and see just how lucky you are.
Count your blessings

 

Pete, sorry but I thought that this litte post would illustrate that nothing really chnges.

 

Roders, yes - you are right - heath and wellbeing are the most important things in life, and charity and help too, not money. I am not philosophising, but merely repeating a comment that is as apposite today as 80 years ago.

 

Oh right, sorry it went over my head
Just wondered what had happened regarding recent events.