From: John Thornton
. Was life so hard 20 years ago when electricity usage per person and fuel usage per person was much less than it is today? Was 1984 some sort of modern stone age of brutish despair?
-clip- ^^^^ CB: This is a good type of point I think. Having an average material standard of living with a material kit roughly like that of an employed working class family from the 1950's would not be exactly austerity, hairshirt or barracks communism, pursuit of noble savagery.