Originally Posted by JMT21
Freedom from want and fear??? I was just a twinkle in my parents eye when the Cold War was going on, but my understanding was there were some pretty tense moments during those years. Our desires as humans are, and probably always will be insatiable. As much as I would like, I find it difficult to believe people have ever been free from fear and wants.
You're certainly right that people have never and will never be completely free of either... All of economics and business are geared towards the allocation of limited resources in a world of unlimited demands. I was making reference, however, to two of the paintings in Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" series, which were derived from FDR's speeches and were used as posters in the Second World War. Neither was a depiction of actual conditions (especially at that time), but rather represented an ideal of free and democratic society towards which many Americans and others contributed their blood and toil, both in WWII and the later hardships of the Cold War. Sadly, these goals seem all too frequently lost in the highest levels of contemporary business culture, as the various threads here on the sad state of the airlines seem to indicate...