How top executives live (Fortune, 1955)
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/06/classic-top-500-executives/?section=magazines_fortune
I didn’t finish reading it, but thought it was worth passing along to my reader(s). It is an interesting glimpse into the life of executives a half century ago. What is even more interesting is when they compare and contrast with the life of executives 30-40 years previous, before the crash: LOTS of parallels with our current society, which is just more fuel for the fire of apocalypse. I suppose it does give me a small amount of hope that perhaps we can get through this period and into a more sane world, but it seems, according to my reading, that our nation had to live through a period of 20-25 years of fairly substantial privation that was pretty much only relieved by WWII, so repeating that pattern isn’t something that fills me with joys of anticipation.
I can’t shake the conviction that life is going to get really sucky before it has any chance of getting better and I also am stuck with the worry that I won’t be able to take the requisite efforts to prepare, so instead of blissful ignorance leading to the bitch slap of the ice cold fish, I will be cringing in anticipation the whole time. Anticipation is the worst! Give me blissful ignorance instead! Why can’t I be one of the manifold sheeple and live a fantasy life?
