Stupid things we used to do.
· Drive without seatbelts
· Drive without seatbelts
· Drink and drive
· Drive stoned
· Put pesticides on our lawns
· Smoke tobacco
· Believe the government
· Use leaded gas
· Leave cars idling
· Discriminate based upon race, color or sexual orientation
· Not allow mothers to choose if they wanted to bring a child to term
· Lock people up for smoking pot
· Not take advantage of the wind and sun to make electricity
· Use Agent Orange to defoliate hydro lines
· Wear wool sweaters and socks to play hockey
· Play hockey without helmets
· Think women were best kept bare foot and pregnant
· Fill the back of the pickup with kids and drive down the highway
· Play with mercury
· Beat children with leather belts or wooden switches
· Burn coal without any scrubbers
· Believe stock prices were based upon underlying value
· Think external inputs could build nations
· Keep physically and mentally challenged people hidden
· Pay $20 for an album
· Allow private enterprises to get to the point where their failure becomes an existential threat to the economy.
· Believe all cultures were equally valid
· Spit on the sidewalk
· Litter
· Not recycle
· Trust institutions
· Boat without life jackets
· Fear communism
· Think socialism was communism
· Not realize sport is more business than sport
· Think bigger was better
· Celebrate sports hits that left a player concussed
· Take boxing seriously
· Wear suits and ties
· Have a wardrobe that mostly needed dry cleaning
· Put raw sewage into the water system
· Build bedroom communities
Manufacture electronic goods with vampire electric use or inefficient AC/DC converters.
· Believe in simple solutions
· Trust leaders to do the right thing
· Think being green wasted money instead of making money
· Pave everything
Have smoking sections on airplanes, not realizing it was the equivalent of having peeing sections in swimming pools.
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